Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Bodedern lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape begins 0.9 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 0 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Bodedern add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Bodedern grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Bodedern?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Bodedern’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Bodedern grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bodedern, 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.
Bodedern is 21st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Bodedern stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 59 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porlock Somerset | A+ | 2.9 | 75% | 5.2 | 71% |
| 2 | Carlin How North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 13% |
| 3 | Sundridge Kent | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 73% |
| 4 | Shamley Green Surrey | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3 | 69% |
| 5 | Dawlish Warren Devon | A | 21.1 | 73% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 6 | Niton Isle of Wight | A | 2.6 | 76% | 3.1 | 37% |
| 7 | Donisthorpe Leicestershire | A | 38.4 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Egloshayle Cornwall | A | 7.3 | 100% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 9 | Bures Suffolk | A | 5.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 14% |
| 10 | Ruardean Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 29% |
| 11 | Great Bedwyn Wiltshire | A | 3 | 76% | 3.7 | 100% |
| 12 | Brighstone Isle of Wight | A | 2.2 | 55% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 13 | Lower Halstow Kent | A− | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 14 | Low Bradley North Yorkshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 6.2 | 2% |
| 15 | Hurst Green East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 16 | Oxspring South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.7 | 77% | 4 | 1% |
| 17 | Stallingborough Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 18 | King's Somborne Hampshire | B+ | 5.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 19 | St Bees Cumbria | B | 8.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Clyst St Mary Devon | B | 5.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Bodedern Gwynedd | B | 1.2 | 100% | 0 | 16% |
| 22 | Woodchurch Kent | B | 2.3 | 78% | 2.8 | 12% |
| 23 | Moresby Parks Cumbria | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 24 | Stradbroke Suffolk | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Trawden Lancashire | B− | 4 | 0% | 6.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Welford Northamptonshire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Rushwick Worcestershire | B− | 5 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Datchworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 10.8 | 76% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Lyne Surrey | C+ | 4 | 71% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Tansley Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 73% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 31 | Coldeast Devon | C+ | 1.6 | 47% | 3.6 | 30% |
| 32 | Haswell County Durham | C+ | 3.2 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Chesterton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Bottom Boat West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Stalmine Lancashire | C | 3.1 | 67% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Rearsby Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Barrington Cambridgeshire | C | 3.6 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Croughton Northamptonshire | C | 3.6 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Hill Brow and Rake Hampshire | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.9 | 97% |
| 40 | Wolverley Worcestershire | C− | 7.2 | 23% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Methley West Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Abbotskerswell Devon | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Kirby-le-Soken Essex | C− | 0.7 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Parson Drove Cambridgeshire | D | 3.5 | 60% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Shardlow Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 73% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Kingswood Warwickshire | D | 1.7 | 42% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Coup Green Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Puddletown Dorset | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2.1 | 15% |
| 49 | Llanybydder Dyfed | D | 2.2 | 60% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Beckingham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.6 | 28% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Melton Constable Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Stoke Ferry Norfolk | D | 1.1 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Ifold West Sussex | D | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 54 | Bretforton Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 9% |
| 55 | Standlake Oxfordshire | D− | 1.7 | 42% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Rillington North Yorkshire | D− | 1 | 75% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Wrawby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Darrington West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Blackwell Worcestershire | D− | 0.7 | 29% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Fiskerton Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bodedern’s built-up area.
How close Bodedern’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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
The Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape 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.
Ynys Mon/anglesey
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16% of the land within 5 km of Bodedern is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns.
Footpaths in and around Bodedern
0 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bodedern and the kilometre around it, 0.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Bodedern; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Bodedern: May to August
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) | 8.0 | 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) | 101 | 71 | 69 | 66 | 55 | 62 | 66 | 77 | 86 | 107 | 121 | 100 |
May is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 121 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Bodedern →
Bodedern is near the sea
6% of the area within 5 km of Bodedern is sea. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
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.
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Bodedern
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
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground 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.
Cemaes, 8.5 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Valley, Holyhead and Llanerchymedd have at least twice Bodedern’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Bodedern
Is Bodedern near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape, 0.9 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 219 km² and was designated in 1967.
How many people in Bodedern live near a park?
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%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Bodedern?
May to August: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bodedern good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 0% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 19% (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 Bodedern’s overall grade.
Where Bodedern’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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