Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and playing fields in Cwmfelinfach add up to 24.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. 21 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.7 for every square kilometre. Cwmfelinfach grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Cwmfelinfach’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by parks close to every home.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Cwmfelinfach, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Cwmfelinfach stands out most for park space per resident: only 1 of the other 59 has more.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Davids Dyfed | A+ | 5.2 | 84% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 2 | Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 3 | Winsley Wiltshire | A | 12.4 | 79% | 4.2 | 38% |
| 4 | Goldsithney Cornwall | A | 1.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 5 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 6 | Maresfield East Sussex | A | 2.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 7 | Biddenden Kent | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 8 | Cwmfelinfach Gwent | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 9 | Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset | A− | 25.1 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Bradwell Derbyshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 11 | Govilon Gwent | A− | 2.1 | 80% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 12 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Mynydd Marian Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Quintrell Downs Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Appleton Thorn Cheshire | B+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 18 | Wymeswold Leicestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Motcombe Dorset | B | 9.5 | 74% | 1.5 | 25% |
| 20 | Marazion Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 80% | 2 | 14% |
| 21 | Seven Sisters West Glamorgan | B | 7 | 82% | 0.5 | 19% |
| 22 | Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen West Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 79% | 1 | 40% |
| 23 | Holymoorside Derbyshire | B− | 1.1 | 82% | 3.8 | 14% |
| 24 | Burton-in-Kendal Cumbria | B− | 0.6 | 100% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 25 | Narborough Norfolk | B− | 3.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Cockfield County Durham | B− | 2.3 | 81% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 28 | Kingswood Kent | B− | 3.8 | 23% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 29 | St Merryn Cornwall | B− | 1.9 | 47% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 30 | Helmsley North Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 73% |
| 31 | Mobberley Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Houghton Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.2 | 81% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Stonnall Staffordshire | C+ | 11.5 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Stoke Gabriel Devon | C+ | 1.2 | 70% | 1.2 | 30% |
| 36 | East Hendred Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 29% | 2.8 | 47% |
| 37 | Great Bardfield Essex | C | 2 | 81% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 38 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Ringstead Northamptonshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Winterley Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Winkleigh Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Walkern Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 52% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Cottingham and Middleton Northamptonshire | C− | 12.1 | 53% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Newton St Loe Somerset | C− | 0 | 0% | 3.5 | 17% |
| 46 | Cowbit Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Butterwick Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Malpas Cheshire | D | 1.6 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | North Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.5 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Longframlington Northumberland | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Bomere Heath Shropshire | D− | 1.8 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Claypole Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Kilsby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.5 | 50% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Griston Norfolk | D− | 0.8 | 15% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Cock and End Suffolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Cwmfelinfach’s built-up area.
The biggest is Parc Gwledig Cwm Sirhywi, 109 ha (269 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 193 residents.
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.
Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Cwmfelinfach and the kilometre around it, 2.7 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 regional route here is the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
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) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 165 | 120 | 102 | 88 | 91 | 88 | 87 | 110 | 105 | 160 | 160 | 174 |
July is the driest month (87 mm) and the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 174 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Cwmfelinfach →
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.
Cwmfelinfach is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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. Pen Y Trwyn, at 313 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Cwmfelinfach.
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cwmfelinfach | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Trethomas 1.7 mi | B− | 6.9 | 48% | 0% |
| Bedwas 1.8 mi | A | 4.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Llanbradach 2.2 mi | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 0% |
| Machen 2.3 mi | A | 3.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Maesycwmmer 2.6 mi | C− | 1.9 | 73% | 0% |
| Pontllanfraith 2.6 mi | B | 3.7 | 93% | 0% |
Bedwas, 1.8 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Parc Gwledig Cwm Sirhywi, 109 ha (269 acres), with 4 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Nine Mile Point Recreation Ground (9.5 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 8.6 mi north-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk. Parc Gwledig Cwm Sirhywi alone has 4 km of path.
The Bendricks, 15 mi from the edge of the village, then Pebble Beach (16 mi). Cwmfelinfach itself is inland.
100% 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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
About average for paths: 2.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 51% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 99% (24.6 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Cwmfelinfach’s overall grade.
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