Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Llanerchymedd has more park space per resident than 8 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Llanerchymedd add up to 4.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 4 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.6 for every square kilometre. 64% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Llanerchymedd grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Llanerchymedd?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Llanerchymedd’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by the Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Llanerchymedd grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Llanerchymedd, 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.
Llanerchymedd is 33rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Llanerchymedd stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 54 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bathford Somerset | A+ | 4.8 | 100% | 3.7 | 64% |
| 2 | Longhoughton Northumberland | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 27% |
| 3 | Halmer End and Alsagers Bank Staffordshire | A | 33.2 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Ovingham Northumberland | A | 6.5 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 5 | Dove Holes Derbyshire | A | 5.1 | 100% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 6 | Rock Cornwall | A− | 3.2 | 39% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 7 | Hampsthwaite North Yorkshire | A− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 23% |
| 8 | Walton Somerset | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 9 | Shillingstone Dorset | B+ | 2.8 | 67% | 3.2 | 51% |
| 10 | Slinfold West Sussex | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Gislingham Suffolk | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 12 | High Pittington County Durham | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Huntley Gloucestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Acomb Northumberland | B | 2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 15 | Curdworth Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 16 | Thorpe End Norfolk | B− | 0.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 17 | Thurlton Norfolk | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 0.7 | 39% |
| 18 | Romsley Worcestershire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 19 | Penybanc Dyfed | B− | 7.4 | 35% | 2.4 | 1% |
| 20 | Latchingdon Essex | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Grovesend West Glamorgan | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Coddington Nottinghamshire | C+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Child Okeford Dorset | C+ | 1.7 | 45% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 24 | Grampound Road Cornwall | C+ | 3.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Allithwaite Cumbria | C+ | 1.9 | 60% | 1 | 17% |
| 26 | Baslow Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 45% | 2.8 | 98% |
| 27 | Blackmore Essex | C+ | 3.6 | 75% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Wadworth South Yorkshire | C+ | 2.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Dickleburgh Norfolk | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 30 | St Cleer Cornwall | C | 3 | 29% | 1.6 | 32% |
| 31 | Hunston West Sussex | C | 1.8 | 65% | 2.4 | 17% |
| 32 | Stoke Hammond Buckinghamshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Llanerchymedd Gwynedd | C | 4.2 | 64% | 0.6 | 4% |
| 34 | Cold Norton Essex | C | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Hordle Hampshire | C− | 0 | 0% | 1.6 | 41% |
| 36 | North Elmham Norfolk | C− | 4.7 | 71% | 1 | 0% |
| 37 | Owston Ferry Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Southfields Essex | C− | 2.8 | 0% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Old Leake Lincolnshire | C− | 3.6 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Chilworth Hampshire | C− | 1.1 | 24% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Chudleigh Knighton Devon | C− | 1 | 46% | 2.5 | 16% |
| 42 | Eastrington East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 3 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Guilsfield Powys | C− | 3.6 | 71% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Bratton Wiltshire | C− | 1.9 | 25% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Fochriw Gwent | C− | 1 | 73% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Capel Hendre Dyfed | D | 0.8 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Long Whatton Leicestershire | D | 2.8 | 63% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Ullesthorpe Leicestershire | D | 1.5 | 75% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Benwick Cambridgeshire | D | 0.3 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Orwell Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 78% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | Ramsey Island Essex | D | 1.4 | 39% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Pelynt Cornwall | D | 0 | 0% | 0.6 | 13% |
| 53 | Pant Shropshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Outlane West Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Great Doddington Northamptonshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | High Legh Cheshire | D− | 1.9 | 50% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Austrey Warwickshire | D− | 1.7 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Moor End Gloucestershire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | East Keswick West Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Clipsham Rutland | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Llanerchymedd’s built-up area.
6 in 10 Llanerchymedd 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 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
The Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape is 2.1 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
Snowdonia
4% of the land within 5 km of Llanerchymedd is National Park or National Landscape, more than 66% of UK towns. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths in and around Llanerchymedd
4 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Llanerchymedd and the kilometre around it, 0.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Llanerchymedd; 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 Llanerchymedd: June 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 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 82 | 75 | 65 | 62 | 69 | 72 | 84 | 95 | 127 | 131 | 125 |
May is the driest month (62 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 18 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 131 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Llanerchymedd →
2 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Llanerchymedd 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.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 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.
Cemaes, 6.5 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Llanerchymedd
Is Llanerchymedd near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 15 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, 2.1 mi away.
What is the nearest beach to Llanerchymedd?
Traeth Dulas, 4.5 mi from the edge of the village, then Lligwy Beach (5.0 mi). Llanerchymedd itself is inland.
How many people in Llanerchymedd live near a park?
64% 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 Llanerchymedd?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Llanerchymedd good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 2% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 83% (4.2 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 Llanerchymedd’s overall grade.
Where Llanerchymedd’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.