Benllech’s biggest
Cae'r Berllan
Play space
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Benllech
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Keith Williamson · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Benllech · parks, paths & countryside
Benllech is on the coast
The sea makes up 37% of the area within 5 km. The Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape reaches the edge of Benllech. Parks and playing fields in Benllech add up to 0.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Benllech grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
17%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
20 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
27%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape
The sea
37%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Benllech?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast37% of the area within 5 km is sea; 10 beaches mapped.Protected countryside27% of the land within 5 km is Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape.Less park per person0.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Benllech’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Benllech grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Benllech, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 26% of UK towns36th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space0.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
1out of
100
100
A park within a walk17%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
4out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape27%of the land within 5 km
82out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
23out of
100
100
The sea37%of the area within 5 km
95out 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.
Villages its size
Benllech is 36th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,000 to 2,200 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
Benllech1.8
Villages its size2.5
Gwynedd towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Benllech0.1
Villages its size1.9
Gwynedd towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Benllech17%
Villages its size69%
Gwynedd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Benllech falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 58 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hay-on-Wye Powys | A+ | 9.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 2 | Wye Kent | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 3.1 | 71% |
| 3 | Crickhowell Powys | A+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 4 | Seaview and Nettlestone Isle of Wight | A+ | 3.6 | 89% | 2.8 | 8% |
| 5 | Chiseldon Wiltshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 6 | Highfields Caldecote Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Marldon Devon | A− | 4.1 | 70% | 2.7 | 3% |
| 8 | Bishops Lydeard Somerset | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 23% |
| 9 | Culverstone Green Kent | B+ | 5.3 | 61% | 2.7 | 42% |
| 10 | Brompton North Yorkshire | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Bermuda Warwickshire | B | 4.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 12 | Alveston Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 13 | Bickington Devon | B | 1.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Meppershall Bedfordshire | B | 2.3 | 83% | 3 | 2% |
| 15 | Needingworth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.6 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 16 | Dyserth Clwyd | B− | 0.5 | 54% | 3.6 | 22% |
| 17 | Bishop's Tachbrook Warwickshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Felbridge Surrey | B− | 2 | 80% | 2.4 | 25% |
| 19 | Uffculme Devon | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 1.3 | 14% |
| 20 | Edenfield Lancashire | B− | 2.7 | 69% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Wardle Greater Manchester | B− | 1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Exning Suffolk | B− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Westoning Bedfordshire | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 24 | Aspley Guise Bedfordshire | B− | 2.2 | 69% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Ightham Kent | C+ | 2 | 30% | 3 | 56% |
| 26 | Brantham Suffolk | C+ | 1 | 27% | 2.6 | 42% |
| 27 | Kintbury Berkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 71% | 1.8 | 92% |
| 28 | Gregson Lane Lancashire | C+ | 1.7 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Pembrey Dyfed | C+ | 0.3 | 48% | 2.6 | 11% |
| 30 | Read Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 71% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 31 | Hixon Staffordshire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 11% |
| 32 | Market Bosworth Leicestershire | C | 10.9 | 25% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Galgate Lancashire | C | 1.1 | 58% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 34 | Marcham Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Bredon Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.6 | 25% |
| 36 | Benllech Gwynedd | C | 0.1 | 17% | 1.8 | 27% |
| 37 | Maesycwmmer Gwent | C− | 1.9 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Barrowby Lincolnshire | C− | 3.5 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Keyingham East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Micklefield West Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 48% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 41 | Carlton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Crich Derbyshire | C− | 0.6 | 69% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Sutton Bonington Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.7 | 28% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Urpeth County Durham | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Radley Oxfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 36% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Winwick Cheshire | C− | 3.2 | 48% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Ilchester Somerset | C− | 3.5 | 40% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Scholar Green Cheshire | C− | 0.7 | 65% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Bardney Lincolnshire | D | 4.1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
| 50 | Stone Buckinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Stretham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 60% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Merriott Somerset | D | 1.1 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Meden Vale Nottinghamshire | D | 0.3 | 58% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Haxey Lincolnshire | D | 1.6 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 55 | Great Eccleston Lancashire | D | 1.2 | 72% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | West Hill Devon | D | 0 | 0% | 1.2 | 27% |
| 57 | Wymott Lancashire | D− | 0.3 | 10% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Keelby Lincolnshire | D− | 1 | 71% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Westwoodside Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Wythall Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Benllech’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 Benllech
The biggest is Cae'r Berllan, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
2 in 10 Benllech 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 (17%)Further (83%)
Benllech17%
Villages its size69%
Gwynedd towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 1,700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 414 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Benllech
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 Landscape
Ynys Mon/anglesey
At the edge north219 km²since 196727% of the land within 5 km
National Park
Snowdonia
9.6 mi south-east2,140 km²since 1951
27% of the land within 5 km of Benllech is National Park or National Landscape, more than 82% of UK towns. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Benllech
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Benllech and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path8.3 km
The regional route here is the Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path.
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 Benllech: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 108 | 86 | 77 | 76 | 65 | 71 | 70 | 82 | 91 | 141 | 130 | 135 |
May is the driest month (65 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 141 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 18 nights a year. The climate in Benllech →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Benllech
37% of the area within 5 km of Benllech is sea. 10 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 3 with a name.
Benllech Sands0.5 mi from town
DirectionsTraeth Bychan0.6 mi from town
DirectionsLligwy Beach2.5 mi from town
DirectionsSea: 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.
Things to do
5 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
Hills and peaks 1
Castell Mawr Rock25 m (82 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
Golden Sunset0.0 mi from town
DirectionsY Garnedd0.6 mi from town
DirectionsNant Bychan Farm1.2 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
LlangefniLlanerchymeddBeaumarisLlanfair PwllgwyngyllMenai BridgeGaerwenBenllech
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benllech | C | 0.1 | 17% | 27% |
| Llangefni 5.5 mi | C− | 1.8 | 95% | 0% |
| Llanerchymedd 6.1 mi | C | 4.2 | 64% | 4% |
| Beaumaris 6.7 mi | B− | 2.7 | 30% | 18% |
| Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll 6.7 mi | C | 0.8 | 71% | 8% |
| Menai Bridge 6.8 mi | A | 1.8 | 100% | 7% |
| Gaerwen 7.1 mi | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 7% |
Menai Bridge, 6.8 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Llangefni, Llanerchymedd and Beaumaris have at least twice Benllech’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Benllech
What is the biggest park in Benllech?
Cae'r Berllan, 0.1 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Benllech near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 9.6 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape, at the edge of the village.
What are the best walks near Benllech?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path.
How many people in Benllech live near a park?
17% 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 Benllech?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Benllech good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 23% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 1% (0.1 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 Benllech’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Benllech’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.