Talgarth’s biggest
King George's Field
Playing field
4.2 ha (10 acres)0.3 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Talgarth
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Fabian Musto · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Talgarth · parks, paths & countryside
Talgarth is inside the Brecon Beacons National Park
Parks and playing fields in Talgarth add up to 5.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 15 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. Talgarth grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
71%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
15 km
1.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
52%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Talgarth?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Inside the Brecon Beacons National ParkTalgarth sits inside it: 1,350 km² of protected landscape.Room to roam5.7 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 89% of UK towns.Few mapped footpaths1.5 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Talgarth’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Talgarth grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Talgarth, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B
Better than 61% of UK towns24th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space5.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
90out of
100
100
A park within a walk71%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
31out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape52%of the land within 5 km
92out of
100
100
Footpaths1.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
17out 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
Talgarth is 24th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 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
Talgarth1.5
Villages its size2.0
Powys towns1.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Talgarth5.7
Villages its size2.3
Powys towns2.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Talgarth71%
Villages its size78%
Powys towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Talgarth stands out most for park space per resident: only 8 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 46 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huncoat Lancashire | A+ | 10.1 | 100% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 2 | Clanfield Hampshire | A+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 78% |
| 3 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 4 | Otterbourne Hampshire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3.2 | 25% |
| 5 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 6 | Box Hill Surrey | A | 35.9 | 12% | 6 | 39% |
| 7 | Cronton Merseyside | A | 6.8 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Chew Magna Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 15% |
| 9 | Millhouse Green South Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 18% |
| 10 | East Hanney Oxfordshire | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 4% |
| 11 | Harlech Gwynedd | A− | 1.9 | 36% | 3.5 | 67% |
| 12 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 13 | Bradpole Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 95% |
| 14 | Felsted Essex | A− | 7.5 | 81% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Westfield East Sussex | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 83% |
| 16 | Tregarth Gwynedd | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 23% |
| 17 | Bierton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.8 | 70% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Walberton West Sussex | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 19 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 20 | Billy Row County Durham | B | 2.3 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 23 | Bunbury Cheshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Talgarth Powys | B | 5.7 | 71% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 25 | Kilgetty Dyfed | B | 1 | 100% | 0.9 | 18% |
| 26 | Minster Lovell Oxfordshire | B | 3.6 | 79% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 27 | Sutton Benger Wiltshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Eckington Worcestershire | B | 4.1 | 72% | 1.9 | 23% |
| 29 | Potten End Hertfordshire | B− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.2 | 44% |
| 30 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 31 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Marlpit Hill Kent | B− | 2.5 | 0% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 34 | Chulmleigh Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Trimdon Grange County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Sutton Common Suffolk | C+ | 0.8 | 51% | 3.9 | 85% |
| 37 | Thorpe on the Hill West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 38 | Ashill Norfolk | C+ | 3.7 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 40 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 41 | Bradfield Essex | C | 1.4 | 27% | 1.5 | 35% |
| 42 | Warwick Bridge Cumbria | C | 6.5 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Stoke Hampshire | C | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 32% |
| 44 | West Clandon Surrey | C | 1.9 | 49% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 45 | Ponthir Gwent | C | 2.9 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Coedhirwaun West Glamorgan | C | 2 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 47 | South Killingholme Lincolnshire | C | 1.7 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Hanwood Shropshire | C− | 1.9 | 19% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 49 | Little Downham Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.8 | 61% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 51 | Blyth Nottinghamshire | D | 2.5 | 76% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Burton on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2.5 | 31% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Southery Norfolk | D | 2 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Dishforth North Yorkshire | D | 2.3 | 68% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Elvington North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Felton Northumberland | D− | 1.7 | 50% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Walsham le Willows Suffolk | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Helpston Cambridgeshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Talgarth’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 Talgarth
The biggest is King George's Field, 4.2 ha (10 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Talgarth 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 (71%)Further (29%)
Talgarth71%
Villages its size78%
Powys towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 313 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Talgarth
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
Talgarth is inside it1,350 km²since 195552% of the land within 5 km
52% of the land within 5 km of Talgarth is National Park or National Landscape, more than 92% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Talgarth
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Talgarth and the kilometre around it, 1.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Talgarth; 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 Talgarth: 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 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 96 | 78 | 69 | 67 | 69 | 62 | 64 | 77 | 73 | 107 | 98 | 110 |
June is the driest month (62 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 110 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Talgarth →
Things to do
4 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.
1Hills and peaks2Waterfalls1Nature reserves4Playgroundsabout the same as villages its size1Campsites
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
The Park306 m (1,004 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Pwll y Wrach Nature Reserve17 ha · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Lower Porthamel Camping0.8 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.
Hay-on-WyeBreconLlangynidrCrickhowellTalgarth
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talgarth | B | 5.7 | 71% | 52% |
| Hay-on-Wye 7.0 mi | A+ | 9.3 | 100% | 21% |
| Brecon 7.4 mi | A | 3.2 | 86% | 61% |
| Llangynidr 8.7 mi | B+ | 2.4 | 65% | 100% |
| Crickhowell 10.2 mi | A+ | 4.3 | 100% | 100% |
Hay-on-Wye, 7 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Talgarth
What is the biggest park in Talgarth?
King George's Field, 4.2 ha (10 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
How many people in Talgarth live near a park?
71% 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 Talgarth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Talgarth good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 17% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 90% (5.7 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 Talgarth’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Talgarth’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.