Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.026% of the land within 5 km of Penygroes is National Park or National Landscape
Snowdonia National Park and the Llyn National Landscape both begin about a mile from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 4 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.6 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Penygroes add up to 0.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Penygroes grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Penygroes?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Penygroes’ strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Penygroes grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Penygroes, 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.
Penygroes is 42nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,700 to 1,900 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Penygroes falls furthest behind on path per km², where 58 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Market Lavington Wiltshire | A+ | 9.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 2 | Llanbadarn Fawr Dyfed | A+ | 14.7 | 82% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 3 | Rogiet Gwent | A+ | 3.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 4 | New Denham Buckinghamshire | A | 8.9 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 5 | Scalby North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 70% | 2 | 43% |
| 6 | New Hartley Northumberland | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 7 | Wembdon Somerset | A− | 7.4 | 88% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Heslington North Yorkshire | A− | 6.3 | 80% | 9.2 | 0% |
| 9 | Tow Law County Durham | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 21% |
| 10 | Horam East Sussex | B+ | 3.9 | 91% | 1.4 | 46% |
| 11 | Compton Berkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 12 | Pendlebury Greater Manchester | B+ | 18.5 | 74% | 4 | 0% |
| 13 | Trimdon Colliery County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Marks Tey Essex | B+ | 5.5 | 92% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Eight Ash Green Essex | B+ | 8.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Ironville Derbyshire | B | 1.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Hemingfield South Yorkshire | B | 3.3 | 80% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 18 | North Benfleet Essex | B | 11 | 56% | 4 | 0% |
| 19 | Hughenden Valley Buckinghamshire | B− | 2.1 | 32% | 3.4 | 76% |
| 20 | East Bridgford Nottinghamshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Llandeilo Dyfed | B− | 1.8 | 88% | 2.3 | 22% |
| 22 | Delabole Cornwall | B− | 1.1 | 76% | 2 | 35% |
| 23 | Holbrook Derbyshire | B− | 4.2 | 55% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Warton (Lancaster) Lancashire | B− | 0.3 | 32% | 3.5 | 43% |
| 25 | Blaengarw Mid Glamorgan | B− | 5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Meldreth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.7 | 82% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Inkberrow Worcestershire | B− | 5.3 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Much Wenlock Shropshire | B− | 2.4 | 13% | 3.6 | 20% |
| 29 | Warden Kent | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 30 | High Halstow Kent | B− | 1.7 | 76% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Copford Essex | B− | 4 | 70% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 32 | North Tawton Devon | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Great Yeldham Essex | C+ | 3.1 | 86% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Great Chesterford Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Cheddington Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.2 | 35% | 3.1 | 16% |
| 36 | Kedington Suffolk | C+ | 3.3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Withnoe Cornwall | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 3% |
| 38 | Duckmanton Derbyshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Great Broughton and Little Broughton Cumbria | C | 1.2 | 85% | 2.3 | 1% |
| 40 | Bodelwyddan Clwyd | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Shireoaks Nottinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 78% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Penygroes Gwynedd | C− | 0.7 | 66% | 0.6 | 26% |
| 43 | Drakes Broughton Worcestershire | C− | 1 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Deddington Oxfordshire | C− | 3.6 | 53% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Shilbottle Northumberland | C− | 1.8 | 49% | 1.9 | 7% |
| 46 | Middle Barton Oxfordshire | C− | 1.9 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Elmstead Market Essex | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Pattingham Staffordshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Branton South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 71% | 3 | 0% |
| 50 | Hatfield Heath Essex | D | 1.3 | 76% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Richings Park Buckinghamshire | D | 1 | 72% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | D | 2.6 | 29% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Johnston Dyfed | D | 1.4 | 55% | 0.6 | 5% |
| 54 | Stainton North Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | St Clears Dyfed | D− | 2 | 31% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Bramham West Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Pentre Maelor Clwyd | D− | 1.4 | 8% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Bardsey West Yorkshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Tockwith North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 14% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 60 | Wainfleet All Saints Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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7 in 10 Penygroes 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 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 299 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Penygroes
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.
Snowdonia
Llyn
Ynys Mon/anglesey
26% of the land within 5 km of Penygroes is National Park or National Landscape, more than 81% of UK towns. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths in and around Penygroes
4 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Penygroes 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 Penygroes; 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 Penygroes: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 156 | 132 | 118 | 100 | 95 | 108 | 123 | 139 | 138 | 192 | 196 | 189 |
May is the driest month (95 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 196 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 18 nights a year. The climate in Penygroes →
Penygroes is near the sea
8% of the area within 5 km of Penygroes is sea. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
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.
6 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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Waterfalls 2
Plus 2 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penygroes | C− | 0.7 | 66% | 26% |
| Caernarfon 6.0 mi | B− | 1.7 | 83% | 14% |
| Llanrug 7.6 mi | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 6% |
| Llanberis 7.9 mi | A+ | 33.7 | 100% | 49% |
| Bethel 8.4 mi | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 10% |
| Clwt-y-bont 9.1 mi | B− | 0.8 | 100% | 19% |
| Y Felinheli 9.5 mi | B+ | 4.9 | 65% | 10% |
Llanberis, 7.9 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Caernarfon, Llanrug and Llanberis have at least twice Penygroes’ green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Penygroes
Is Penygroes near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 1.4 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
How many people in Penygroes live near a park?
66% 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 Penygroes?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Penygroes 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 7% (0.7 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 Penygroes’ overall grade.
Where Penygroes’ 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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