Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0The sea makes up 52% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in St Davids add up to 5.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. St Davids grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
St Davids’ strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by the sea.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is St Davids, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, St Davids stands out most for park space per resident: only 15 of the other 59 have more.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Davids Dyfed | A+ | 5.2 | 84% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 2 | Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 3 | Wolvercote Oxfordshire | A | 32 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Winsley Wiltshire | A | 12.4 | 79% | 4.2 | 38% |
| 5 | Crowmarsh Gifford Oxfordshire | A | 8 | 77% | 3.6 | 60% |
| 6 | Goldsithney Cornwall | A | 1.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 7 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 8 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Biddenden Kent | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 10 | Cwmfelinfach Gwent | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset | A− | 25.1 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 13 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Govilon Gwent | A− | 2.1 | 80% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 15 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Mynydd Marian Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Quintrell Downs Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 20 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Wymeswold Leicestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Motcombe Dorset | B | 9.5 | 74% | 1.5 | 25% |
| 23 | Marazion Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 80% | 2 | 14% |
| 24 | Seven Sisters West Glamorgan | B | 7 | 82% | 0.5 | 19% |
| 25 | Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen West Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 79% | 1 | 40% |
| 26 | Holymoorside Derbyshire | B− | 1.1 | 82% | 3.8 | 14% |
| 27 | Burton-in-Kendal Cumbria | B− | 0.6 | 100% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 28 | Narborough Norfolk | B− | 3.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Cockfield County Durham | B− | 2.3 | 81% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 31 | St Merryn Cornwall | B− | 1.9 | 47% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 32 | Helmsley North Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 73% |
| 33 | Mobberley Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Pensarn Clwyd | C+ | 13.1 | 45% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Stonnall Staffordshire | C+ | 11.5 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Stoke Gabriel Devon | C+ | 1.2 | 70% | 1.2 | 30% |
| 39 | East Hendred Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 29% | 2.8 | 47% |
| 40 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 42 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Winkleigh Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Walkern Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 52% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Cottingham and Middleton Northamptonshire | C− | 12.1 | 53% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Cowbit Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Butterwick Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Malpas Cheshire | D | 1.6 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | North Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.5 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Longframlington Northumberland | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Bomere Heath Shropshire | D− | 1.8 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Claypole Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Kilsby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.5 | 50% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Griston Norfolk | D− | 0.8 | 15% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Cock and End Suffolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is St Davids’ built-up area.
The biggest is Chanter's Orchard, 0.6 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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).
About 200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
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.
47% of the land within 5 km of St Davids is National Park or National Landscape, more than 90% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
22 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in St Davids and the kilometre around it, 2.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route, a national route, passes St Davids.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside St Davids’ named parks.
0.6 ha. 3 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge, including St Davids Cathedral Close: Chanter's Orchard (a scheduled monument).
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
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) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 73 | 62 | 59 | 56 | 59 | 63 | 79 | 75 | 106 | 130 | 108 |
May is the driest month (56 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 130 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 8 nights a year. The climate in St Davids →
52% of the area within 5 km of St Davids is sea. 10 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 6 with a name.
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
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.
Plus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Chanter's Orchard, 0.6 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route and Treginnis Walk from Porthclais, Pembroke.
84% 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%.
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 46% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 88% (5.2 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Davids’ overall grade.
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