Photo: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Llanbradach
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 52% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Llanbradach add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 21 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.9 for every square kilometre. Llanbradach grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Llanbradach grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Llanbradach, 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.
How Llanbradach compares with UK towns of 3,600 to 3,900
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,600 to 3,900 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Llanbradach falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 44 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Marsden West Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 6.5 | 33% |
| 3 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 4 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 5 | Bethesda Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 90% | 3.2 | 49% |
| 6 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 7 | Kingswood Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 8 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 12 | Stanstead Abbotts Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 15 | Lyme Regis Dorset | B | 1.4 | 60% | 2.5 | 56% |
| 16 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Mayland Essex | B | 2.6 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 19 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Whitwell Derbyshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 23 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 24 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 25 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 26 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 27 | Kingskerswell Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 28 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Oakworth West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 84% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Tutbury Staffordshire | C+ | 2.5 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 32 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 34 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 35 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Bransgore Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 71% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 37 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Glemsford Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 84% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 40 | Hawkhurst Kent | C− | 1.1 | 60% | 1.4 | 100% |
| 41 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 42 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 43 | West Parley Dorset | C− | 1.6 | 20% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Bloxham Oxfordshire | C− | 2.6 | 71% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Kempsey Worcestershire | D | 0.9 | 40% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Windlesham Surrey | D | 2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Langford Bedfordshire | D | 1.4 | 63% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Spilsby Lincolnshire | D | 0 | 0% | 2.2 | 23% |
| 52 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 53 | St Columb Major Cornwall | D | 1 | 89% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Bilton East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Upwell and Outwell Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 43% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Copmanthorpe North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 38% | 1.4 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Llanbradach’s built-up area.
5 in 10 Llanbradach 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 1,800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 471 residents.
The Brecon Beacons National Park is 10 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.
Brecon Beacons
Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Llanbradach
21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Llanbradach and the kilometre around it, 1.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
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 best walking months in Llanbradach: 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 | |
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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 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 173 | 127 | 111 | 92 | 92 | 88 | 99 | 119 | 114 | 167 | 171 | 185 |
June is the driest month (88 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 185 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Llanbradach →
8 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
Llanbradach is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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 Dimlaith, at 224 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Llanbradach.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 2
Playgrounds 8
Plus 8 playgrounds 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llanbradach | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 0% |
| Bedwas 1.7 mi | A | 4.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Abertridwr and Senghenydd 1.9 mi | C− | 1.8 | 87% | 0% |
| Caerphilly 2.1 mi | B | 2.6 | 82% | 0% |
| Cwmfelinfach 2.2 mi | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Maesycwmmer 2.4 mi | C− | 1.9 | 73% | 0% |
| Trethomas 2.8 mi | B− | 6.9 | 48% | 0% |
Bedwas, 1.7 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Bedwas, Caerphilly and Cwmfelinfach have at least twice Llanbradach’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Llanbradach
Is Llanbradach near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 10 mi north-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 Llanbradach?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Llanbradach?
The Bendricks, 14 mi from the edge of the town, then Pebble Beach (15 mi). Llanbradach itself is inland.
How many people in Llanbradach live near a park?
52% 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 Llanbradach?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Llanbradach good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 28% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 18% (1.2 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 Llanbradach’s overall grade.
Where Llanbradach’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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