Presteigne’s biggest
Went's Meadow
Playing field
4.3 ha (11 acres)2.0 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Presteigne · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Presteigne
The Shropshire Hills National Landscape begins 4.5 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Presteigne add up to 3.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 61% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Presteigne grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
61%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
29 km
2.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Shropshire Hills starts 4.5 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Presteigne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Shropshire Hills National Landscape starts 4.5 mi north.Historic parksSilia is a registered historic park (Grade II).Parks can be a walk away39% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Presteigne’s strongest suit is the Shropshire Hills National Landscape close by, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Presteigne grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Presteigne, 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 33% of UK towns42nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
72out of
100
100
A park within a walk61%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
21out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Shropshire Hills begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
54out 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.
Villages its size
Presteigne is 42nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,800 to 2,000 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
Presteigne2.8
Villages its size2.3
Powys towns1.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Presteigne3.2
Villages its size2.4
Powys towns2.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Presteigne61%
Villages its size80%
Powys towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Presteigne stands out most for park space per resident: only 21 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 45 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westbourne West Sussex | A+ | 9.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 57% |
| 2 | Capel-le-Ferne Kent | A+ | 21.8 | 88% | 4 | 52% |
| 3 | Kirkby Stephen Cumbria | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 65% |
| 4 | Colyton Devon | A+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 79% |
| 5 | Brading Isle of Wight | A+ | 2.9 | 84% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 6 | Chilworth Surrey | A+ | 10.8 | 80% | 6.1 | 59% |
| 7 | Scholes (near Hade Edge) West Yorkshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.7 | 16% |
| 8 | Ickleford Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 82% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 9 | South Nutfield Surrey | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 10 | Lower Broadheath Worcestershire | A− | 6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Goosnargh Lancashire | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 6% |
| 12 | Lyminge Kent | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 2.1 | 90% |
| 13 | Little Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 1.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 34% |
| 14 | Kirkby Lonsdale Cumbria | B+ | 9.2 | 74% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 15 | Pontesbury Shropshire | B+ | 3.1 | 63% | 3.8 | 28% |
| 16 | Highnam Gloucestershire | B+ | 12 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Polesworth Warwickshire | B+ | 13.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 18 | Wingates Greater Manchester | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.8 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Southgate West Glamorgan | B+ | 1.1 | 21% | 3.7 | 56% |
| 21 | Chinley Derbyshire | B+ | 1.2 | 78% | 4.4 | 53% |
| 22 | Partridge Green West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Shurdington Gloucestershire | B | 2.7 | 47% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 24 | Wrotham Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 49% |
| 25 | Beare Green Surrey | B | 1.6 | 70% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 26 | Stanwick Northamptonshire | B− | 7.9 | 82% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Dilton Marsh Wiltshire | B− | 2.1 | 67% | 3.5 | 4% |
| 28 | Hutton Cranswick East Riding of Yorkshire | B− | 5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Wrea Green Lancashire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Whitland Dyfed | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Wooler Northumberland | B− | 3.3 | 81% | 0.8 | 26% |
| 32 | Stow-on-the-Wold Gloucestershire | B− | 3.4 | 64% | 1.2 | 88% |
| 33 | Oxenhope West Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Leeswood Clwyd | C+ | 4 | 83% | 0.7 | 2% |
| 35 | Wickham Bishops Essex | C+ | 3.4 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Hockley Heath West Midlands | C+ | 2.6 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Northiam East Sussex | C+ | 2.2 | 76% | 0.8 | 100% |
| 38 | Stratton Cornwall | C+ | 0.8 | 23% | 3 | 8% |
| 39 | High Spen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 3.3 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Hatton Warwickshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 41 | Ramsden Heath Essex | C | 2.3 | 82% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Presteigne Powys | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Sleights North Yorkshire | C | 0.9 | 30% | 1.5 | 80% |
| 44 | Rode Heath Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Newton Poppleford Devon | C | 1.4 | 44% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 46 | Barrow Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Chivenor and Wrafton Devon | C− | 0.6 | 0% | 1.7 | 17% |
| 48 | Black Notley Essex | C− | 1.6 | 36% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Littlethorpe Leicestershire | C− | 0.4 | 57% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Stocksfield Northumberland | C− | 2.2 | 40% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Brompton-on-Swale North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 71% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Manby Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 53 | Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Hutton Rudby North Yorkshire | D | 1.6 | 35% | 1.1 | 13% |
| 55 | Little Plumstead Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 64% | 1 | 16% |
| 56 | Shawbury Shropshire | D− | 2.2 | 30% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Wheldrake North Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Colnbrook Berkshire | D− | 0.6 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Goostrey Cheshire | D− | 0.3 | 42% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Shippon Oxfordshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Presteigne’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 Presteigne
The biggest is Went's Meadow, 4.3 ha (11 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Presteigne 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).
Within 400 m (61%)Further (39%)
Presteigne61%
Villages its size80%
Powys towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Shropshire Hills National Landscape is 4.5 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 Park
Brecon Beacons
14 mi south1,350 km²since 1955
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Presteigne scores 0% on it even though the Shropshire Hills National Landscape is 4.5 mi away. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Presteigne
29 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Presteigne and the kilometre around it, 2.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Presteigne; 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.
History along the way
A registered historic park in Presteigne
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Presteigne’s named parks.
Registered · Grade IISilia0.8 ha
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
When to get out
The best walking months in Presteigne: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 88 | 59 | 70 | 63 | 62 | 62 | 57 | 65 | 63 | 94 | 92 | 103 |
July is the driest month (57 mm) and the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 103 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 65 nights a year. The climate in Presteigne →
Things to do
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Presteigne
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.
Nature reserves 3
Coed Llanandras Nature Reserve3.3 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsWithybeds Nature Reserve0.9 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 nature reserve more.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite 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.
KingtonKnightonWeobleyLeominsterPresteigne
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presteigne | C | 3.2 | 61% | 0% |
| Kington 4.7 mi | B+ | 3.9 | 89% | 0% |
| Knighton 5.3 mi | A− | 2.7 | 81% | 34% |
| Weobley 9.7 mi | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Leominster 11.3 mi | C− | 1.1 | 72% | 0% |
Knighton, 5.3 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 81% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Presteigne
What is the biggest park in Presteigne?
Went's Meadow, 4.3 ha (11 acres), with 2 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Presteigne near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 14 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Shropshire Hills National Landscape, 4.5 mi away.
How many people in Presteigne live near a park?
61% 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 Presteigne?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Presteigne are historic?
Silia (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Presteigne good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 54% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 72% (3.2 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 Presteigne’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Presteigne’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.