St Dogmaels’ biggest
Alexandra Gardens
Park or garden
0.7 ha (2 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of St Dogmaels
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in St Dogmaels · parks, paths & countryside
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 0.8 mi from St Dogmaels
Footpaths add up to 10 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.1 for every square kilometre. The sea makes up 13% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in St Dogmaels add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. St Dogmaels grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
71%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
10 km
1.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
23%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The sea
13%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is St Dogmaels?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Pembrokeshire Coast National Park starts 0.8 mi west.On a National TrailThe Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route passes through.Few mapped footpaths1.1 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
St Dogmaels’ strongest suit is the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park close by, followed by the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
St Dogmaels grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is St Dogmaels, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C+
Better than 39% of UK towns34th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
23out of
100
100
A park within a walk71%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
32out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape23%of the land within 5 km
80out of
100
100
Footpaths1.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
9out of
100
100
The sea13%of the area within 5 km
87out 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
St Dogmaels is 34th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 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 Dogmaels1.1
Villages its size1.8
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
St Dogmaels1.4
Villages its size2.1
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
St Dogmaels71%
Villages its size100%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
St Dogmaels falls furthest behind on path per km², where 51 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grove Dorset | A+ | 6 | 100% | 8.7 | 0% |
| 2 | Totternhoe Bedfordshire | A+ | 9.6 | 100% | 4.9 | 26% |
| 3 | Winchelsea Beach East Sussex | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 45% |
| 4 | East Challow Oxfordshire | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 5 | Broadbottom Greater Manchester | A+ | 5 | 100% | 4.2 | 15% |
| 6 | Hawkesbury Upton Gloucestershire | A+ | 3.4 | 100% | 3 | 73% |
| 7 | Westwood Wiltshire | A+ | 2.6 | 100% | 4.4 | 29% |
| 8 | Cemaes Gwynedd | A+ | 5 | 100% | 1.3 | 14% |
| 9 | Mawnan Smith Cornwall | A | 3.5 | 30% | 4 | 40% |
| 10 | Bellingham Northumberland | A | 8.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 57% |
| 11 | Waddington Lancashire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 60% |
| 12 | Little Wymondley Hertfordshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 13 | Thurlstone South Yorkshire | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 4.5 | 13% |
| 14 | Wivelsfield Green East Sussex | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 11% |
| 15 | North Chailey East Sussex | B+ | 4.5 | 48% | 4.1 | 18% |
| 16 | Langenhoe and Abberton Essex | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 17 | Leek Wootton Warwickshire | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Norton St Philip Somerset | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 21% |
| 19 | Loddiswell Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 20 | Thornwood Common Essex | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Clyst Honiton Devon | B+ | 8 | 83% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Olveston Gloucestershire | B | 0.7 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Thornton Leicestershire | B | 13.7 | 50% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Whitwell Hertfordshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Levens Cumbria | B | 0.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 53% |
| 26 | Great Paxton Cambridgeshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Great Amwell Hertfordshire | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Beckington Somerset | B− | 2.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Laxfield Suffolk | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Winteringham Lincolnshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Hooley Surrey | B− | 1.7 | 67% | 3.4 | 18% |
| 32 | King's Bromley Staffordshire | B− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Derry Hill and Studley Wiltshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 34 | St Dogmaels Dyfed | C+ | 1.4 | 71% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 35 | Bethersden Kent | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Hill Ridware Staffordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1.2 | 7% |
| 37 | Bempton East Riding of Yorkshire | C | 0.6 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Elmsett Suffolk | C | 3.4 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Clifton Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Scorton North Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Hurst Berkshire | C− | 5.1 | 68% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Lea Lincolnshire | C− | 4.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Swarthmoor Cumbria | C− | 0.2 | 79% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Llangeinor Mid Glamorgan | C− | 3.1 | 62% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Loxwood West Sussex | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Sutton St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.1 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Marshland St James Norfolk | D | 3.5 | 0% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Besthorpe Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 72% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Barnack Cambridgeshire | D | 1.6 | 26% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Northop Clwyd | D | 1.6 | 70% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Shadoxhurst Kent | D | 1.8 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Overton Lancashire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Wymington Bedfordshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Sutton Norfolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 1 | 29% |
| 55 | Corby Glen Lincolnshire | D− | 2 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Wawne East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1 | 0% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Foulsham Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 29% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Mendlesham Suffolk | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Stockton on the Forest North Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Prees Shropshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 0.6 | 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 Dogmaels’ 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 Dogmaels
The biggest is Alexandra Gardens, 0.7 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 St Dogmaels 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 (71%)Further (29%)
St Dogmaels71%
Villages its size100%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 78 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around St Dogmaels
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
0.8 mi west615 km²since 195123% of the land within 5 km
23% of the land within 5 km of St Dogmaels is National Park or National Landscape, more than 80% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
St Dogmaels is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route
10 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in St Dogmaels and the kilometre around it, 1.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
NationalRegional
Ceredigion Coast Path4.8 km
Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route2.9 km
Wales Coast Path (Pembrokeshire) link2.7 km
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route, a national route, passes St Dogmaels. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Ceredigion Coast Path and Wales Coast Path (Pembrokeshire) link.
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 Dogmaels: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 120 | 82 | 72 | 67 | 64 | 78 | 67 | 76 | 79 | 112 | 140 | 127 |
May is the driest month (64 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 140 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 20 nights a year. The climate in St Dogmaels →
The coast
St Dogmaels is near the sea
13% of the area within 5 km of St Dogmaels is sea. 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
Patch Beach1.0 mi from town
DirectionsCei-bâch / Little Quay1.6 mi from town
DirectionsTraeth Godir-coch2.6 mi from town
DirectionsThe 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.
Things to do
13 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 4
Parc-Y-Pratt92 m (302 ft) · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Albro125 m (410 ft) · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsPen Trebared61 m (200 ft) · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPantsaeson Hill205 m (673 ft) · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Coed y Mwldan Nature Reserve1.0 ha · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 13
Netpool Play Area0.3 mi from town
DirectionsAwel yr Afon Play Area0.5 mi from town
DirectionsArdal Chwarae Golwg-y-Castell Play Area0.6 mi from town
DirectionsRidgeway Playground0.6 mi from town
DirectionsTeifimania0.7 mi from town
DirectionsKing George V Playground0.9 mi from town
DirectionsFelin Ban Play Area1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 3
Glanfa Glanteifon Slipway0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 2 slipways 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.
CardiganAberporthNewcastle EmlynSt Dogmaels
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Dogmaels | C+ | 1.4 | 71% | 23% |
| Cardigan 1.1 mi | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 13% |
| Aberporth 6.9 mi | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0% |
| Newcastle Emlyn 9.5 mi | B− | 5.9 | 100% | 0% |
Newcastle Emlyn, 9.5 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Newcastle Emlyn has at least twice St Dogmaels’ green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in St Dogmaels
What is the biggest park in St Dogmaels?
Alexandra Gardens, 0.7 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is St Dogmaels near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 0.8 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near St Dogmaels?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Ceredigion Coast Path, Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route and Wales Coast Path (Pembrokeshire) link.
How many people in St Dogmaels live near a park?
71% 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 Dogmaels?
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 Dogmaels good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 9% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 23% (1.4 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 Dogmaels’ overall grade.
Sources
Where St Dogmaels’ 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.
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