Favorite Parks

What's your favorite park or parks in the UK?? Make sure to state why and where you live:


I'm in North London but my favorite parks aside from Hyde is Highgate woods and Dulwich Park.

Highgate Woods is lovely woodside you nearly forget your in London. It has a great playpark for all kids from infants to older kids (it's got that swing rope thingy for the older kids)

Dulwich has a yummy pub nearby that caters to families yet it's a proper pub not a wetherspoons type one. The park is lovely and there's a duck pond and historic spots (not easy to get to though)

No doubt about it: Inverleith Park and its cohort - The Royal Botanical Gardens.  If I could live anywhere in the world, I'd live right there. 

The Yorkshire Dales & Yorkshire Moors!! 

Also loved the Lake District -- we spent a weekend in the Rydal Mount area, on the Wordsworth trail...

Carolyn B

Coram Fields.  A perfect place for children.  Fenced in, plenty of play areas and a small petting zoo.

The Yorkshire Dales & Yorkshire Moors!! 

Also loved the Lake District -- we spent a weekend in the Rydal Mount area, on the Wordsworth trail... 

Oh, I forgot...I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire.  DH & I love hiking through beautiful countryside.  Today we went partway up to Ingleborough (one of the 'Three Peaks' of the Yorkshire Dales).  OMG -- there were the TINIEST little lambs in the fields along the way -- like so small they were still walking awkwardly...and the weather was gorgeous too.

Carolyn B

Ah I loved going to the Lake district...I could live there definately 

I like Queen Mary's Gardens in Regent Park.

Me too Carla, it's so pretty!

At the moment my two favourite local (Islington) parks are Gibson Square and the Mary Magdalene Church gardens.  I also love Hampstead Heath. As well as being a gorgeous spot, it has a couple of special memories for me: I took my husband there when he came over here to meet me and our son was born in the nearby Royal Free Hospital and I could see the Heath from the labour room.

I've heard quite a bit about Epping Forest (I guess it's not really a park but a forest!) which I know is owned by the Corporation of London and is out in the 'burbs of Essex.  I understand it is quite huge and beautiful but haven't been there myself.  Has anyone made it out there?

Matt

The Hollies, on the north side of Leeds. Lovely deciduous woods with rhodendrons, azaleas and bluebells on the hillside, running down to a stream and open grassland  and a children's playground right at the end to give a purpose to a family walk.

I also love Hampstead Heath.

Yep, great open space, plus close to Holly Bush pub, one on my favorite pubs in North London.   

bvamin

St. Nicholas in Warwick which is a few miles from Coventry. You can see Warwick Castle in the background and these are the features...Includes a crazy golf course, amusement rides, outdoor paddling pool and boats for hire.  Tennis, football courts, recreation ground, indoor swimming pool and leisure centre, cafe, BMX track and Boules rink.

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I live right in (or is it on?) the UK's only coastal nat'l park: the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. It's really gorgeous and includes some beautiful walks. I think all together it's nearly 200 miles long!

http://www.contours.co.uk/self-guided/pembrokeshire.html