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Parks and open spaces
Helen Heaton - June 2008
helen.heaton@kirklees.gov.uk
Introduction
With five major parks and 28 smaller parks, 260 recreation grounds play areas and 152 playing fields and sports pitches in Kirklees there is plenty of green space across the district for local people to enjoy. With exciting new developments, events, activity programmes and sports facilities - there's plenty to do in your local park or recreation ground.
Step inside the park gates and you'll find people throwing with a frisbee or playing an impromptu game of football, taking a stroll or lazing in the sunshine. There are sports facilities - multi-courts, tennis courts, bowling greens and in some parks even pitch and putt courses and skate parks. For kids there are play areas full of swings, climbing frames and slides - you can relax and they can play.
Enjoy the scenery and take the chance to looks at the many plants and shrubs in the parks. Each year around 130,000 plug plants and 500,000 plants are grown from seed at the council's nursery in Bradley to be planted in parks, and public flowerbeds, in hanging baskets and troughs at council venues across Kirklees. Geraniums, petunaias, marigolds, busy lizzies, begonias, dahlias and lobelia are the main varieties grown and planted in displays for all to enjoy.
During the summer months you'll find a programme of events in the five major parks which includes brass band concerts, musical extravaganzas and sports events.
Why not make a day of it and call in at the Tolson Museum as well as play tennis and have a picnic in Ravensknowle Park in Huddersfield? Or visit the Enchanted Forest and Butterfly House in Wilton Park and then visit the Collections from around the world at Bagshaw Museum. If you're taking the children to play in Crow Nest Park, they may be interested to see the toys from bygone ages in the Dewsbury Museum which is the centre of the park.
Look out for major changes to Kirklees parks over the next few years - Greenhead Park is set to change dramatically with a huge programme of renovation and refurbishment. Work at Beaumont Park will see the cascade back in action.
So if you're looking for somewhere to go and something to do, then step inside your local park and you could be amazed - it's a great day out!
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Lepton skate park |
Wilton butterfly park |
Children play area |
Greenhead rose garden |
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