Photo: Roy Parkhouse · CC BY-SA 2.0Beachley is on the coast, on the Wales Coast Path
The sea makes up 37% of the area within 5 km. The Wye Valley National Landscape begins 1.1 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Beachley add up to 0.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Beachley grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Beachley?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Beachley’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Wye Valley National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Beachley grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Beachley, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Beachley is 48th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Beachley 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 | Corton Suffolk | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3 | 5% |
| 2 | Upton St Leonards Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 80% | 7.5 | 43% |
| 3 | Fairlands Surrey | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 5 | 11% |
| 4 | Chagford Devon | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 98% |
| 5 | Masham North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 3 | 44% |
| 6 | Ditchling East Sussex | A | 7.4 | 77% | 4 | 57% |
| 7 | Tolvaddon Cornwall | A | 11.9 | 24% | 4.5 | 9% |
| 8 | Leigh Kent | A | 3 | 100% | 2.6 | 49% |
| 9 | Barns Green West Sussex | A | 6.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 10 | Horsted Keynes West Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.3 | 83% |
| 11 | Wenvoe South Glamorgan | A− | 5.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Chatburn Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 59% |
| 13 | Boosbeck North Yorkshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 22% |
| 14 | Camber East Sussex | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 15 | Grange Moor West Yorkshire | A− | 4.3 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | St Erth Cornwall | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 17 | Gotherington Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.7 | 72% | 3.7 | 33% |
| 18 | Grassington North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.3 | 79% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 19 | South Bents Tyne and Wear | B+ | 4.9 | 62% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Borth Dyfed | B | 3.1 | 74% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Oakley Buckinghamshire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 22 | Cropston Leicestershire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Jacobs Well Surrey | B | 1.4 | 77% | 4.7 | 8% |
| 24 | Goudhurst Kent | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 65% |
| 25 | Bishop Middleham County Durham | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Shipham Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 63% | 4 | 55% |
| 27 | Plaxtol Kent | B− | 2.6 | 57% | 2.5 | 40% |
| 28 | Harpur Hill Derbyshire | B− | 3.1 | 31% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 29 | Kelly Bray Cornwall | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 22% |
| 30 | Roydon (South Norfolk) Norfolk | B− | 4.3 | 50% | 4 | 0% |
| 31 | Beaumaris Gwynedd | B− | 2.7 | 30% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 32 | Castlethorpe Buckinghamshire | C+ | 3.5 | 72% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Gainford County Durham | C+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Lacey Green and Loosley Row Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.1 | 27% | 2.4 | 82% |
| 35 | Whimple Devon | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 36 | Brinklow Warwickshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 37 | Three Legged Cross Dorset | C | 1.5 | 77% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 38 | Ashchurch Gloucestershire | C | 2 | 59% | 2.2 | 21% |
| 39 | Bow Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Swindon Staffordshire | C | 2.5 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Mannings Heath West Sussex | C | 1 | 71% | 1.9 | 44% |
| 42 | Baldwin's Gate Staffordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 43 | North Newbald East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Milverton Somerset | C− | 2.1 | 70% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Maiden Newton Dorset | C− | 1.1 | 27% | 2 | 100% |
| 46 | Wetheral Cumbria | C− | 3.8 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Crowle Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 34% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Beachley Gloucestershire | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 49 | Farmborough Somerset | C− | 2 | 38% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Cawston Norfolk | D | 2.7 | 71% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Chawley Oxfordshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Wattstown Mid Glamorgan | D | 3.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Landrake Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 0% | 0.6 | 38% |
| 54 | Reawla Cornwall | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2 | 3% |
| 55 | Stickney Lincolnshire | D | 2.4 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 56 | Pilton Somerset | D− | 1.2 | 28% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Moulton Chapel Lincolnshire | D− | 1.5 | 60% | 0 | 0% |
| 58 | Kentford Suffolk | D− | 1.9 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanfyllin Powys | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Whaplode Lincolnshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.2 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Beachley’s built-up area.
Few Beachley 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).
About 1,100 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 village, about one for every 93 residents.
The Wye Valley National Landscape is 1.1 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.
Wye Valley
Brecon Beacons
14% of the land within 5 km of Beachley is National Park or National Landscape, more than 73% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Beachley is on the Wales Coast Path
12 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Beachley and the kilometre around it, 1.2 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 Wales Coast Path, a national route, passes Beachley. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Severn Way (3) Worcester to Bristol and Wye Valley Walk.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Beachley: 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 | |
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| 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 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 98 | 80 | 67 | 63 | 66 | 64 | 65 | 80 | 72 | 103 | 114 | 118 |
April is the driest month (63 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 118 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 28 nights a year. The climate in Beachley →
The coast and beaches near Beachley
37% of the area within 5 km of Beachley is sea. 7 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
The Wales Coast Path 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.
12 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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 12
Plus 12 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Slipways 3
Plus 3 slipways without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beachley | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 14% |
| Chepstow 1.5 mi | A+ | 1.9 | 100% | 30% |
| Tutshill and Sedbury 1.8 mi | A+ | 2.5 | 87% | 32% |
| Portskewett 3.7 mi | A+ | 10.0 | 100% | 3% |
| Pilning 4.0 mi | C+ | 2.0 | 54% | 0% |
| Severn Beach 4.0 mi | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Olveston 4.2 mi | B | 0.7 | 100% | 0% |
Portskewett, 3.7 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Chepstow, Tutshill and Sedbury and Portskewett have at least twice Beachley’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Beachley
Is Beachley near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 16 mi north-west 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 Wye Valley National Landscape, 1.1 mi away.
What are the best walks near Beachley?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Wales Coast Path (South Wales), Offa's Dyke Path and Severn Way (3) Worcester to Bristol.
How many people in Beachley live near a park?
0% 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 Beachley?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Beachley good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 11% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 2% (0.3 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 Beachley’s overall grade.
Where Beachley’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.
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