Tumble’s biggest
Mynydd Mawr Woodland Park
Park or garden
108 ha (267 acres)24.9 km of path
5 h 30 minto walk all 24.9 km of path
151 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Tumble
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tumble · parks, paths & countryside
Tumble has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Tumble add up to 19.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 93% of residents. Footpaths add up to 26 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. Tumble grades B− for the outdoors: #9 of 23 in Dyfed. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
19.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
93%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
26 km
1.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Tumble?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam19.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 98% of UK towns.Few mapped footpaths1.5 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Tumble’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Tumble grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tumble, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B−
Better than 53% of UK towns#9 of 23 in Dyfed · 26th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space19.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
99out of
100
100
A park within a walk93%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
72out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
16out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
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.
Towns its size
Tumble is 26th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,900 to 4,200 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
Tumble1.5
Towns its size2.8
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tumble19.5
Towns its size2.0
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tumble93%
Towns its size84%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Tumble stands out most for park space per resident: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 50 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hextable Kent | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 9% |
| 2 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 3 | Southbourne West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 92% | 3.3 | 64% |
| 4 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | A | 1.6 | 100% | 4.2 | 40% |
| 5 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 6 | Tenby Dyfed | A | 2.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 7 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 8 | Bisley Surrey | A | 8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Milton Cambridgeshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 11 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 13 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | A− | 1.6 | 80% | 5.3 | 51% |
| 14 | Bearwood Dorset | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 16 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 18 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 19 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 20 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Grange-over-Sands Cumbria | B | 1.5 | 46% | 2.6 | 40% |
| 23 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 24 | Saltford Somerset | B | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 24% |
| 25 | Little Paxton Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.8 | 87% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Tumble Dyfed | B− | 19.5 | 93% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Stoney Stanton Leicestershire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Martock Somerset | B− | 2.9 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 29 | Easington Lane Tyne and Wear | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 30 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 31 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 32 | Ystradgynlais Powys | C+ | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 33 | Send Surrey | C+ | 2.6 | 28% | 3.3 | 5% |
| 34 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 80% | 4 | 0% |
| 36 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 37 | Holmfield West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 74% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Kirkburton West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 40 | South Darenth and Sutton at Hone Kent | C | 1.8 | 43% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 41 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Brayton North Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Langley Park County Durham | C | 0.8 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 45 | Deanshanger Northamptonshire | C | 1.5 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Wynyard County Durham | C | 10.7 | 64% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Beck Row Suffolk | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Great Glen Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Brookmans Park Hertfordshire | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 54 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 55 | Doddinghurst Essex | D | 1.6 | 60% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 57 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Gnosall Staffordshire | D | 1.2 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Cricklade Wiltshire | D | 0.3 | 9% | 3 | 0% |
| 60 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tumble’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 Tumble
The biggest is Mynydd Mawr Woodland Park, 108 ha (267 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
9 in 10 Tumble 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 (93%)Further (7%)
Tumble93%
Towns its size84%
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; 12 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 337 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Brecon Beacons National Park is 6.4 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
Brecon Beacons
6.4 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
National Landscape
Gower
8.1 mi south-west187 km²since 1956
Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Tumble
26 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tumble and the kilometre around it, 1.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Tumble; 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 Tumble: May to September
The town’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 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 158 | 125 | 112 | 93 | 97 | 102 | 117 | 134 | 126 | 180 | 180 | 186 |
April is the driest month (93 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 186 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Tumble →
Things to do
12 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Tumble is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Tywyn Bâch8.0 mi from Tumble’s edge
DirectionsCefn Sidan10 mi from Tumble’s edge
DirectionsSwansea Beach13 mi from Tumble’s edge
DirectionsABCC Meeting Point13 mi from Tumble’s edge
DirectionsSwansea Bay14 mi from Tumble’s 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
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site 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.
Cross Hands and Pen-y-groesPontyberemCapel HendreTycroesPontyatesPenybancTumble
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tumble | B− | 19.5 | 93% | 0% |
| Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes 2.0 mi | C | 9.7 | 70% | 0% |
| Pontyberem 2.4 mi | C− | 4.7 | 58% | 0% |
| Capel Hendre 3.3 mi | D | 0.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Tycroes 4.5 mi | C | 3.5 | 80% | 0% |
| Pontyates 4.7 mi | D | 4.6 | 39% | 0% |
| Penybanc 4.9 mi | B− | 7.4 | 35% | 1% |
Tumble grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Tumble
What is the biggest park in Tumble?
Mynydd Mawr Woodland Park, 108 ha (267 acres), with 24.9 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Tumble near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 6.4 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
What is the nearest beach to Tumble?
Tywyn Bâch, 8.0 mi from the edge of the town, then Cefn Sidan (10 mi). Tumble itself is inland.
How many people in Tumble live near a park?
93% 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 Tumble?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tumble good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 16% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 99% (19.5 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 Tumble’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tumble’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.