Bromyard’s biggest
Kempson Players Recreation Ground
Playing field
1.8 ha (4 acres)0.1 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Bromyard
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Dave Croker · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Bromyard · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Bromyard lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Malvern Hills National Landscape begins 3.8 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Bromyard add up to 0.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 23 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.1 for every square kilometre. Bromyard grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
23 km
2.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Malvern Hills starts 3.8 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Bromyard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Malvern Hills National Landscape starts 3.8 mi east.Less park per person0.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Bromyard’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Malvern Hills National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Bromyard grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bromyard, 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 towns#4 of 5 in Herefordshire · 43rd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space0.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
10out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Malvern Hills begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
33out 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
Bromyard is 43rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,700 to 4,000 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
Bromyard2.1
Towns its size2.5
Herefordshire towns2.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Bromyard0.9
Towns its size2.0
Herefordshire towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Bromyard100%
Towns its size82%
Herefordshire towns89%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Bromyard stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 52 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 3 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 4 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 5 | Bethesda Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 90% | 3.2 | 49% |
| 6 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 7 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 8 | Kingswood Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 9 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 10 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 14 | Stanstead Abbotts Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 15 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 18 | Lyme Regis Dorset | B | 1.4 | 60% | 2.5 | 56% |
| 19 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 21 | Mayland Essex | B | 2.6 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Whitwell Derbyshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 28 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 29 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 30 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 31 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 32 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 33 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 34 | Kingskerswell Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 37 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 39 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 40 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 43 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 45 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 46 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Kempsey Worcestershire | D | 0.9 | 40% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bromyard’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 Bromyard
The biggest is Kempson Players Recreation Ground, 1.8 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Promenade d'Athis
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
0.5 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Bromyard’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Bromyard100%
Towns its size82%
Herefordshire towns89%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Malvern Hills National Landscape is 3.8 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Bromyard scores 0% on it even though the Malvern Hills National Landscape is 3.8 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Bromyard
23 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bromyard and the kilometre around it, 2.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalOther waymarked
Herefordshire Trail7.4 km
Herefordshire Views Walk0.3 km
The regional route here is the Herefordshire Trail.
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 Bromyard: May to 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 71 | 54 | 54 | 57 | 65 | 64 | 64 | 66 | 63 | 87 | 80 | 78 |
February is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 87 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Bromyard →
Things to do
2 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Tenbury WellsGreat MalvernColwall StoneBartestreeLower BroadheathLeominsterBromyard
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromyard | C | 0.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Tenbury Wells 9.0 mi | C | 2.3 | 51% | 3% |
| Great Malvern 9.5 mi | A+ | 3.9 | 90% | 38% |
| Colwall Stone 10.0 mi | A | 4.5 | 67% | 64% |
| Bartestree 10.0 mi | C+ | 2.1 | 81% | 10% |
| Lower Broadheath 10.1 mi | A− | 6.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Leominster 10.3 mi | C− | 1.1 | 72% | 0% |
Great Malvern, 9.5 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 90% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Tenbury Wells, Great Malvern and Colwall Stone have at least twice Bromyard’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Bromyard
What is the biggest park in Bromyard?
Kempson Players Recreation Ground, 1.8 ha (4 acres). Promenade d'Athis (0.4 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Bromyard near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Malvern Hills National Landscape, 3.8 mi east of the town’s edge. It covers 107 km² and was designated in 1959.
What are the best walks near Bromyard?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Herefordshire Trail and Herefordshire Views Walk.
How many people in Bromyard 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 Bromyard?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bromyard good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 33% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 10% (0.9 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 Bromyard’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Bromyard’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.