Trimsaran’s biggest
Penymynydd
Park or garden · 130 m outside town
0.4 ha (1 acres)
0.8 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Hywel Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Trimsaran · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Trimsaran
The Gower National Landscape begins 2.5 mi from the village’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 31% of residents. Footpaths add up to 10 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. Trimsaran grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
31%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
10 km
1.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
2%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Gower National Landscape
The sea
8%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Trimsaran?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Gower National Landscape starts 2.5 mi south.Few mapped footpaths1.0 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Trimsaran’s strongest suit is the Gower National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Trimsaran grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Trimsaran, 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 33% of UK towns38th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
55out 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 Landscape2%of the land within 5 km
65out of
100
100
Footpaths1.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
8out of
100
100
The sea8%of the area within 5 km
85out 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
Trimsaran is 38th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 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
Trimsaran1.0
Villages its size2.2
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Trimsaran2.4
Villages its size2.2
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Trimsaran31%
Villages its size79%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Trimsaran falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 52 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broughton Buckinghamshire | A+ | 8 | 100% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 2 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 3 | Bestwood Village Nottinghamshire | A | 43.8 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Deepcut Surrey | A | 8.4 | 100% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 5 | Tanyfron Clwyd | A | 7.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 13% |
| 6 | Berry Hill Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 79% | 4.7 | 55% |
| 7 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Streethay Staffordshire | A− | 10.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 10 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 11 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 12 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 14 | Hanslope Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 15 | Chiddingfold Surrey | B+ | 2.2 | 87% | 2.5 | 68% |
| 16 | Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk | B+ | 2 | 70% | 1.9 | 65% |
| 17 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 18 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 19 | Sharlston West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 20 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 22 | Steventon Oxfordshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2 | 17% |
| 23 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Wheelock Cheshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Trowell Nottinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 56% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Evercreech Somerset | B | 3.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 27 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 28 | Resolven West Glamorgan | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 30 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Hermitage Berkshire | C+ | 0.6 | 58% | 3.4 | 82% |
| 32 | Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire | C+ | 3.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 7% |
| 33 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 34 | Machynlleth Powys | C+ | 2.6 | 45% | 2 | 29% |
| 35 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Farndon Cheshire | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 37 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 38 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 39 | Mitcheldean Gloucestershire | C | 1.5 | 80% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 40 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 43 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 44 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Stoke Prior Worcestershire | C− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Woldingham Surrey | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 48 | Lanner Cornwall | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 52 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 53 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Bozeat Northamptonshire | D− | 1.3 | 13% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Trimsaran’s 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 Trimsaran
The biggest is Penymynydd, 0.4 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
3 in 10 Trimsaran 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%)
Trimsaran31%
Villages its size79%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 1,500 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 Gower National Landscape is 2.5 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 Landscape
Gower
2.5 mi south187 km²since 19562% of the land within 5 km
National Park
Brecon Beacons
14 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast
16 mi west615 km²since 1951
2% of the land within 5 km of Trimsaran is National Park or National Landscape, more than 64% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Trimsaran
10 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Trimsaran and the kilometre around it, 1.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
St Illtyd's Walk2.7 km
The regional route here is the St Illtyd's Walk.
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 Trimsaran: 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 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 135 | 99 | 90 | 81 | 83 | 87 | 95 | 116 | 106 | 152 | 150 | 150 |
April is the driest month (81 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 152 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Trimsaran →
The coast
Trimsaran is near the sea
8% of the area within 5 km of Trimsaran is sea. 1 beach is mapped within 5 km.
Tywyn Bâch2.2 mi from town
DirectionsSea: 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
2 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
Waterfalls 1
Trimsaran Waterfall0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 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.
CarwayBurry PortKidwellyPontyatesPembreyPwllTrimsaran
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Burry Port, 2.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 75% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Carway, Burry Port and Pwll have at least twice Trimsaran’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Trimsaran
What is the biggest park in Trimsaran?
Penymynydd, 0.4 ha (1 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Trimsaran near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 14 mi north-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Gower National Landscape, 2.5 mi away.
What are the best walks near Trimsaran?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the St Illtyd's Walk.
How many people in Trimsaran 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 Trimsaran?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Trimsaran good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 8% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 55% (2.4 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 Trimsaran’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Trimsaran’s 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.