St Clears’ biggest
St Clears R F C
Playing field
3.5 ha (9 acres)
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: welshbabe · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in St Clears · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in St Clears
Footpaths add up to 5 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.4 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 31% of residents. Parks and playing fields in St Clears add up to 2.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. St Clears grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
31%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
5 km
0.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Outdoors grade
St Clears grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is St Clears, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D−
Better than 3% of UK towns
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
45out of
100
100
A park within a walk31%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
6out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths0.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
1out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland: 1.2% sea, under the 5% that counts
42out of
100
100
Graded, never part of the overall grade (like History and Civic life). It measures what is mapped: OS Open Greenspace leaves out woodland and open-access land that isn’t a park, and OpenStreetMap’s rural paths are more complete in some places than others.
Villages its size
How St Clears compares with UK villages of 1,700 to 1,900
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,700 to 1,900 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
St Clears0.4
Villages its size2.2
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
St Clears2.0
Villages its size2.2
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
St Clears31%
Villages its size80%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
St Clears falls furthest behind on path per km², where 59 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Market Lavington Wiltshire | A+ | 9.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 2 | Llanbadarn Fawr Dyfed | A+ | 14.7 | 82% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 3 | Rogiet Gwent | A+ | 3.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Malvern Wells Worcestershire | A | 10.8 | 37% | 5.3 | 57% |
| 5 | New Denham Buckinghamshire | A | 8.9 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Scalby North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 70% | 2 | 43% |
| 7 | New Hartley Northumberland | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 8 | Wembdon Somerset | A− | 7.4 | 88% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Heslington North Yorkshire | A− | 6.3 | 80% | 9.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Tow Law County Durham | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 21% |
| 11 | Horam East Sussex | B+ | 3.9 | 91% | 1.4 | 46% |
| 12 | Compton Berkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 13 | Pendlebury Greater Manchester | B+ | 18.5 | 74% | 4 | 0% |
| 14 | Trimdon Colliery County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Marks Tey Essex | B+ | 5.5 | 92% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Eight Ash Green Essex | B+ | 8.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Denby Bottles Derbyshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Rackheath Norfolk | B | 2.6 | 100% | 1 | 14% |
| 19 | Hemingfield South Yorkshire | B | 3.3 | 80% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 20 | North Benfleet Essex | B | 11 | 56% | 4 | 0% |
| 21 | Hughenden Valley Buckinghamshire | B− | 2.1 | 32% | 3.4 | 76% |
| 22 | East Bridgford Nottinghamshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Llandeilo Dyfed | B− | 1.8 | 88% | 2.3 | 22% |
| 24 | Delabole Cornwall | B− | 1.1 | 76% | 2 | 35% |
| 25 | Holbrook Derbyshire | B− | 4.2 | 55% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Warton (Lancaster) Lancashire | B− | 0.3 | 32% | 3.5 | 43% |
| 27 | Blaengarw Mid Glamorgan | B− | 5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Inkberrow Worcestershire | B− | 5.3 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Winkfield Row Berkshire | B− | 11 | 80% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Much Wenlock Shropshire | B− | 2.4 | 13% | 3.6 | 20% |
| 31 | Warden Kent | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Copford Essex | B− | 4 | 70% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 33 | North Tawton Devon | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Great Chesterford Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Cheddington Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.2 | 35% | 3.1 | 16% |
| 36 | Kedington Suffolk | C+ | 3.3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Duckmanton Derbyshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Great Broughton and Little Broughton Cumbria | C | 1.2 | 85% | 2.3 | 1% |
| 39 | Doveridge Derbyshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Bodelwyddan Clwyd | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Shireoaks Nottinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 78% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Penygroes Gwynedd | C− | 0.7 | 66% | 0.6 | 26% |
| 43 | Drakes Broughton Worcestershire | C− | 1 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Deddington Oxfordshire | C− | 3.6 | 53% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Shilbottle Northumberland | C− | 1.8 | 49% | 1.9 | 7% |
| 46 | Middle Barton Oxfordshire | C− | 1.9 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Elmstead Market Essex | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Pattingham Staffordshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Hatfield Heath Essex | D | 1.3 | 76% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Aiskew North Yorkshire | D | 1.5 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Richings Park Buckinghamshire | D | 1 | 72% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | D | 2.6 | 29% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Johnston Dyfed | D | 1.4 | 55% | 0.6 | 5% |
| 54 | Stainton North Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | St Clears Dyfed | D− | 2 | 31% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Bramham West Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Pentre Maelor Clwyd | D− | 1.4 | 8% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Bardsey West Yorkshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Tockwith North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 14% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 60 | Wainfleet All Saints Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is St Clears’ built-up area.
Green space: parks, gardens, playing fields and play spaces, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · Contains OS data © Crown copyright · Natural England / NRW
Places to walk
Parks to walk in, in and around St Clears
The biggest is St Clears R F C, 3.5 ha (9 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
3 in 10 St Clears residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
Within 400 m (31%)Further (69%)
St Clears31%
Villages its size80%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 1,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is 7.0 mi away
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the built-up area; circle size shows each one’s area. National Landscapes were called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty until 2023.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast
7.0 mi south-west615 km²since 1951
National Landscape
Gower
14 mi south-east187 km²since 1956
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around St Clears
5 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in St Clears and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of St Clears; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
When to get out
The best walking months in St Clears: May to September
The village’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 149 | 109 | 90 | 82 | 77 | 81 | 86 | 111 | 93 | 145 | 159 | 157 |
May is the driest month (77 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 159 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in St Clears →
Things to do
2 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the village in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK village its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
St Clears is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Marros Sands7.9 mi from St Clears’ edge
DirectionsCefn Sidan10 mi from St Clears’ edge
DirectionsCoppet Hall Beach10 mi from St Clears’ edge
DirectionsSaundersfoot Beach11 mi from St Clears’ edge
DirectionsMonkstone Beach11 mi from St Clears’ edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. Natural Resources Wales tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
WhitlandCarmarthenKidwellyNarberthKilgettySaundersfootSt Clears
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Clears | D− | 2.0 | 31% | 0% |
| Whitland 4.9 mi | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Carmarthen 8.3 mi | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0% |
| Kidwelly 10.0 mi | C | 2.8 | 56% | 0% |
| Narberth 10.6 mi | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 4% |
| Kilgetty 11.0 mi | B | 1.0 | 100% | 18% |
| Saundersfoot 11.6 mi | A− | 10.2 | 69% | 19% |
Saundersfoot, 11.6 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 69% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Whitland and Saundersfoot have at least twice St Clears’ green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in St Clears
What is the biggest park in St Clears?
St Clears R F C, 3.5 ha (9 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is St Clears near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 7.0 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What is the nearest beach to St Clears?
Marros Sands, 7.9 mi from the edge of the village, then Cefn Sidan (10 mi). St Clears itself is inland.
How many people in St Clears live near a park?
31% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical UK town is 83%.
When is the best time of year for walking in St Clears?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is St Clears good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 1% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 45% (2.0 ha per 1,000 residents).
How is the Outdoors Grade worked out?
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, National Park or National Landscape within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of St Clears’ overall grade.
Sources
Where St Clears’ outdoors figures come from
- Parks and green space: Ordnance Survey OS Open Greenspace (parks and gardens, playing fields, play spaces, and their access points). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- National Parks and National Landscapes: Natural England and Natural Resources Wales boundaries, areas and designation dates, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Footpaths, walking routes, beaches and things to do: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL), via Geofabrik, 16 October 2026.
- Historic parks, listed buildings and monuments: Historic England, National Heritage List for England, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rain and temperature: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for the town; daylight calculated from its latitude.
- The sea: ONS Countries (December 2024) boundaries clipped to mean high water. Residents near a park: ONS Census 2021 output areas.
- Grade: TownRatings’ Outdoors Grade, ranked against UK towns only.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.