Abersychan’s biggest
Glansychan Park King George's Field
Park or garden
2.1 ha (5 acres)0.4 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Abersychan
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Abersychan · parks, paths & countryside
83% of Abersychan’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Brecon Beacons National Park begins 0.9 mi from the town’s edge. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.1 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Abersychan add up to 2.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Abersychan grades B− for the outdoors: #24 of 38 in Gwent. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
83%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
1.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
17%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Abersychan?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Brecon Beacons National Park starts 0.9 mi east.On a National TrailThe Cambrian Way passes through.Few mapped footpaths1.1 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Abersychan’s strongest suit is the Brecon Beacons National Park close by, followed by the Cambrian Way. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Abersychan grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Abersychan, 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 45% of UK towns#24 of 38 in Gwent · 28th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
65out of
100
100
A park within a walk83%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
53out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape17%of the land within 5 km
75out of
100
100
Footpaths1.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
9out 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
Abersychan is 28th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,200 to 7,800 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
Abersychan1.1
Towns its size3.0
Gwent towns2.7
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Abersychan2.8
Towns its size1.8
Gwent towns2.5
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Abersychan83%
Towns its size78%
Gwent towns85%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Abersychan stands out most for park space per resident: only 17 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 58 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freshwater and Totland Isle of Wight | A+ | 5 | 89% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 2 | Holbury Hampshire | A+ | 5.5 | 89% | 3.1 | 42% |
| 3 | Stocksbridge South Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 100% | 4.4 | 30% |
| 4 | Ruddington Nottinghamshire | A | 9.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 5 | Bude Cornwall | A | 3.1 | 78% | 3.3 | 9% |
| 6 | Bolton upon Dearne South Yorkshire | A | 5.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 7 | Prestwood and Great Missenden Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 65% | 3.2 | 94% |
| 8 | Seaton Devon | A− | 1.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 55% |
| 9 | Cam Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 57% | 5 | 34% |
| 10 | Otford and Kemsing Kent | A− | 3.3 | 53% | 3.6 | 73% |
| 11 | Goldthorpe South Yorkshire | A− | 8.4 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Chinnor Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 3.7 | 37% |
| 13 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Cromer Norfolk | B+ | 1.4 | 74% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 15 | Gowerton West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 79% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 16 | Partington Greater Manchester | B | 2.8 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Barugh Green and Redbrook South Yorkshire | B | 2.1 | 94% | 4 | 0% |
| 18 | Wroughton Wiltshire | B | 1.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 52% |
| 19 | Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire | B | 1.4 | 78% | 3.2 | 57% |
| 20 | Ashley Hampshire | B | 2.2 | 53% | 1.7 | 47% |
| 21 | Woodville Derbyshire | B− | 3.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Berechurch Essex | B− | 2.1 | 72% | 10.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Wootton Bedfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Rogerstone Gwent | B− | 3.1 | 60% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Eckington Derbyshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 6 | 0% |
| 26 | Crawcrook and Greenside Tyne and Wear | B− | 3.2 | 86% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Yatton Somerset | B− | 3.7 | 40% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Abersychan Gwent | B− | 2.8 | 83% | 1.1 | 17% |
| 29 | Wrecclesham Surrey | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 3.8 | 37% |
| 30 | Paddock Wood Kent | C+ | 1.7 | 78% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 31 | Pelton and Ouston County Durham | C+ | 2 | 64% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 33 | Sprotbrough South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Caerleon Gwent | C | 1.9 | 64% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Horncastle Lincolnshire | C | 0.6 | 60% | 3.9 | 10% |
| 36 | Holywell Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 68% | 3 | 0% |
| 37 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Sawston Cambridgeshire | C | 1.4 | 97% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Castle Donington Leicestershire | C | 1.8 | 85% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Newbridge Gwent | C | 2.2 | 94% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Fazeley Staffordshire | C | 3.2 | 35% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Marske-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Dalton-in-Furness Cumbria | C | 0.9 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 46 | Wivenhoe Essex | C− | 0.9 | 65% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Leicestershire | C− | 2.1 | 82% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | Southwell Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 59% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Calverton Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 62% | 3 | 0% |
| 50 | Breaston and Draycott Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 73% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Pickering North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.7 | 19% |
| 52 | Godmanchester Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.6 | 66% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Shefford Bedfordshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross Berkshire | D | 0.7 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Deeping St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Polesworth and Dordon Warwickshire | D | 1.6 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | D | 1.2 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Beddau Mid Glamorgan | D | 1 | 77% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Market Weighton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 79% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Abersychan’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 Abersychan
The biggest is Glansychan Park King George's Field, 2.1 ha (5 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Abersychan’s homes are to 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 (83%)Further (17%)
Abersychan83%
Towns its size78%
Gwent towns85%
All UK towns83%
About 1,300 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 625 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Brecon Beacons National Park is 0.9 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
0.9 mi east1,350 km²since 195517% of the land within 5 km
17% of the land within 5 km of Abersychan is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Abersychan is on the Cambrian Way
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Abersychan 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 town.
National
Cambrian Way3.5 km
The Cambrian Way, a national route, passes Abersychan.
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 Abersychan: 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 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 156 | 129 | 110 | 94 | 97 | 85 | 87 | 104 | 106 | 176 | 173 | 182 |
June is the driest month (85 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 182 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 52 nights a year. The climate in Abersychan →
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
Abersychan is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Fossil Beach19 mi from Abersychan’s edge
DirectionsSugar Loaf Beach20 mi from Abersychan’s edge
DirectionsLadye Bay20 mi from Abersychan’s edge
DirectionsClevedon Beach21 mi from Abersychan’s edge
DirectionsThe Bendricks23 mi from Abersychan’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.
Up high. Mynydd Farteg Fawr, at 543 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Abersychan.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Mynydd Farteg Fawr543 m (1,782 ft) · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Blaenserchan Colliery81 ha · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 12
Plus 12 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.
PontypoolBlaenavonAbertilleryPenperlleniLlanhillethTrinantAbersychan
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abersychan | B− | 2.8 | 83% | 17% |
| Pontypool 2.7 mi | B+ | 3.6 | 93% | 7% |
| Blaenavon 3.0 mi | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 39% |
| Abertillery 3.0 mi | C | 2.4 | 69% | 0% |
| Penperlleni 3.6 mi | C− | 0.6 | 80% | 17% |
| Llanhilleth 3.7 mi | D | 1.3 | 71% | 0% |
| Trinant 4.3 mi | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
Blaenavon, 3 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Abersychan
What is the biggest park in Abersychan?
Glansychan Park King George's Field, 2.1 ha (5 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Abersychan near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 0.9 mi east of the town’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
What are the best walks near Abersychan?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Cambrian Way.
What is the nearest beach to Abersychan?
Fossil Beach, 19 mi from the edge of the town, then Sugar Loaf Beach (20 mi). Abersychan itself is inland.
How many people in Abersychan live near a park?
83% 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 Abersychan?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Abersychan 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 65% (2.8 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 Abersychan’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Abersychan’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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