Llangefni’s biggest
Bryn-y-Maen
Park or garden
0.8 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Llangefni
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Llangefni · parks, paths & countryside
95% of Llangefni’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape begins 3.5 mi from the town’s edge. 12 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Llangefni add up to 1.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Llangefni grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
95%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
12 km
0.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Ynys Mon/anglesey starts 3.5 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Llangefni?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape starts 3.5 mi north-east.Few mapped footpaths0.8 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Llangefni’s strongest suit is the Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Llangefni grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Llangefni, 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 21% of UK towns#12 of 13 in Gwynedd · 47th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
40out of
100
100
A park within a walk95%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
75out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Ynys Mon/anglesey begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths0.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
5out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
42out 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.
Towns its size
Llangefni is 47th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 5,100 to 5,500 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
Llangefni0.8
Towns its size2.7
Gwynedd towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Llangefni1.8
Towns its size2.1
Gwynedd towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Llangefni95%
Towns its size75%
Gwynedd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Llangefni stands out most for homes near a park: only 5 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 56 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cookham Berkshire | A+ | 8.3 | 96% | 4.3 | 19% |
| 2 | Weston Dorset | A+ | 2.5 | 95% | 7.6 | 0% |
| 3 | Whitehill Hampshire | A+ | 10.2 | 74% | 5.1 | 58% |
| 4 | Hungerford Berkshire | A+ | 9.1 | 85% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 5 | St Ives Cornwall | A | 0.8 | 89% | 3.5 | 24% |
| 6 | Budleigh Salterton Devon | A− | 2.7 | 70% | 2.3 | 38% |
| 7 | Edwinstowe Nottinghamshire | A− | 5.6 | 90% | 4 | 0% |
| 8 | Hoylake Merseyside | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Brotton North Yorkshire | A− | 1.4 | 89% | 3 | 2% |
| 10 | Eynsham Oxfordshire | A− | 3 | 94% | 2.8 | 1% |
| 11 | Northam Devon | A− | 6.8 | 43% | 2 | 16% |
| 12 | Highbridge Somerset | B+ | 2.9 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Sonning Common Oxfordshire | B+ | 2.6 | 60% | 3.7 | 74% |
| 14 | Llantwit Major South Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Drighlington West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.1 | 92% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Whitchurch Hampshire | B+ | 2.3 | 75% | 3.3 | 43% |
| 17 | New Alresford Hampshire | B+ | 2 | 94% | 2.3 | 38% |
| 18 | Waverley and Catcliffe South Yorkshire | B+ | 8.8 | 65% | 5 | 0% |
| 19 | Shrivenham and Watchfield Oxfordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 96% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 20 | Long Ashton Somerset | B+ | 10.2 | 66% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Dartmouth Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 71% | 1.8 | 45% |
| 22 | Newent Gloucestershire | B+ | 3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Battle East Sussex | B+ | 1.7 | 64% | 4.3 | 84% |
| 24 | Fremington Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 88% | 2.1 | 10% |
| 25 | Benson Oxfordshire | B | 6 | 44% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 26 | Longstanton and Northstowe Cambridgeshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Rowlands Gill Tyne and Wear | B | 4.9 | 84% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Shinfield Berkshire | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Redbourn Hertfordshire | B | 2.4 | 70% | 3.2 | 11% |
| 30 | Iver Heath Buckinghamshire | B | 28.9 | 53% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Virginia Water Surrey | B | 14.5 | 72% | 3 | 0% |
| 32 | Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire | B− | 1.6 | 84% | 7.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Abercarn Gwent | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Midhurst West Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 28% | 4.3 | 100% |
| 35 | Brynmawr Gwent | C+ | 1.2 | 68% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 36 | Sacriston County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 72% | 4 | 0% |
| 37 | Helsby Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 66% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Oakley Hampshire | C | 1.7 | 56% | 2.6 | 21% |
| 39 | Havercroft and Ryhill West Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Bovingdon Hertfordshire | C | 1.4 | 55% | 2.3 | 26% |
| 41 | Shevington Greater Manchester | C | 1.8 | 73% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Waterbeach Cambridgeshire | C | 1.5 | 94% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Looe Cornwall | C− | 0.1 | 47% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 44 | Long Stratton Norfolk | C− | 1 | 89% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Bayston Hill Shropshire | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Ludgershall Wiltshire | C− | 0.7 | 72% | 1.9 | 32% |
| 47 | Llangefni Gwynedd | C− | 1.8 | 95% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Ingatestone Essex | C− | 3.2 | 56% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Measham Leicestershire | C− | 1.3 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Littlestone-on-Sea Kent | C− | 1.4 | 37% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Long Sutton Lincolnshire | D | 2.2 | 81% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Potton Bedfordshire | D | 1.3 | 77% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Blackrod Greater Manchester | D | 1 | 83% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 54 | Wigton Cumbria | D | 2.4 | 65% | 1 | 0% |
| 55 | Thornton West Yorkshire | D | 0.4 | 54% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Eye Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Moorends South Yorkshire | D | 2.2 | 39% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Winslow Buckinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 59% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Appley Bridge Greater Manchester | D− | 0.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Ravenshead Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Llangefni’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 Llangefni
The biggest is Bryn-y-Maen, 0.8 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Llangefni’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).
Within 400 m (95%)Further (5%)
Llangefni95%
Towns its size75%
Gwynedd towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 752 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape is 3.5 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.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
National Landscape
Ynys Mon/anglesey
3.5 mi north-east219 km²since 1967
National Park
Snowdonia
9.9 mi east2,140 km²since 1951
National Landscape
Llyn
15 mi south160 km²since 1957
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Llangefni scores 0% on it even though the Ynys Mon/anglesey National Landscape is 3.5 mi away. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Llangefni
12 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Llangefni and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Llangefni; 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Llangefni: May to July and 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 109 | 78 | 75 | 71 | 69 | 73 | 76 | 102 | 98 | 140 | 132 | 126 |
May is the driest month (69 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 140 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. The climate in Llangefni →
Things to do
7 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
Llangefni is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Benllech Sands4.7 mi from Llangefni’s edge
DirectionsTraeth Bychan5.8 mi from Llangefni’s edge
DirectionsLligwy Beach6.9 mi from Llangefni’s edge
DirectionsTraeth Dulas7.5 mi from Llangefni’s edge
DirectionsTraeth Abermenai7.7 mi from Llangefni’s edge
DirectionsGood to know
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
Nature reserves 1
The Dingle (Nant y Pandy) Nature Reserve13 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 7
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Caeau Ty'n Talwrn - Scout Campsite0.8 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.
GaerwenLlanfair PwllgwyngyllBenllechLlanerchymeddMenai BridgeY FelinheliLlangefni
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llangefni | C− | 1.8 | 95% | 0% |
| Gaerwen 2.9 mi | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 7% |
| Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll 5.0 mi | C | 0.8 | 71% | 8% |
| Benllech 5.5 mi | C | 0.1 | 17% | 27% |
| Llanerchymedd 5.7 mi | C | 4.2 | 64% | 4% |
| Menai Bridge 6.1 mi | A | 1.8 | 100% | 7% |
| Y Felinheli 6.6 mi | B+ | 4.9 | 65% | 10% |
Menai Bridge, 6.1 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Llanerchymedd and Y Felinheli have at least twice Llangefni’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Llangefni
What is the biggest park in Llangefni?
Bryn-y-Maen, 0.8 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Llangefni near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 9.9 mi east of the town’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, 3.5 mi away.
What is the nearest beach to Llangefni?
Benllech Sands, 4.7 mi from the edge of the town, then Traeth Bychan (5.8 mi). Llangefni itself is inland.
How many people in Llangefni live near a park?
95% 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 Llangefni?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Llangefni good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 5% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 40% (1.8 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 Llangefni’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Llangefni’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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