Fabienne's Kids’ Guidebook
Kids
Lovely kid-friendly park with a great enclosed playground (incl. sandpit, climbing tower and a zip line!), a paddling pool popular on hot days and a little café for refreshments and light lunch.
Directions:
Get W3 bus from Bedford Road, 3 min walk from the flat towards the train station (Palace Gates Road stop M).
Priory Park
112 Middle LaneLovely kid-friendly park with a great enclosed playground (incl. sandpit, climbing tower and a zip line!), a paddling pool popular on hot days and a little café for refreshments and light lunch.
Directions:
Get W3 bus from Bedford Road, 3 min walk from the flat towards the train station (Palace Gates Road stop M).
Separate playgrounds for toddlers (toddler climbing frames, swings and slides), and older kids (big slide, climbing structures and basketball court). Skate park. Lovely little lake with ducks and geese (you can buy duck feed packets for £1 from the café as bread hurts them). Boat hire where you can get pédalos for a paddle around. Café has a good selection of drinks, ice cream, snacks and lunch options. There is also an ice cream van usually parked on The Avenue park gate, by the other side of the playgrounds.
When to go: weekdays are best as it gets very busy at weekends!
Directions:
From the flat, take a right on Palace Gates Road and walk ~50m to the pedestrian crossing: you’ll see the park gates on the other side of the road. Enter the park and walk uphill, then right where the path splits. Keep walking up (past Go Ape climbing activity on your right) and you’ll see the lake and café on your right. The playgrounds and skate park are a little further along.
Alexandra Park Playground
Separate playgrounds for toddlers (toddler climbing frames, swings and slides), and older kids (big slide, climbing structures and basketball court). Skate park. Lovely little lake with ducks and geese (you can buy duck feed packets for £1 from the café as bread hurts them). Boat hire where you can get pédalos for a paddle around. Café has a good selection of drinks, ice cream, snacks and lunch options. There is also an ice cream van usually parked on The Avenue park gate, by the other side of the playgrounds.
When to go: weekdays are best as it gets very busy at weekends!
Directions:
From the flat, take a right on Palace Gates Road and walk ~50m to the pedestrian crossing: you’ll see the park gates on the other side of the road. Enter the park and walk uphill, then right where the path splits. Keep walking up (past Go Ape climbing activity on your right) and you’ll see the lake and café on your right. The playgrounds and skate park are a little further along.
Best for kicking a ball around as there is lots of flat, open space. The Pavilion café has table tennis rackets and balls to play on the tables outside the café. There’s wooden climbing equipment to the left, tennis and basketball courts and a kiddie playground on the right.
Directions: take the 184 bus on Palace Gates Road opposite the shops (stop isn’t marked very well but is opposite Alex’s Café). Stop at Victoria Road and the park is on your left.
Durnsford Road Recreation Ground
31 Brooklands AveBest for kicking a ball around as there is lots of flat, open space. The Pavilion café has table tennis rackets and balls to play on the tables outside the café. There’s wooden climbing equipment to the left, tennis and basketball courts and a kiddie playground on the right.
Directions: take the 184 bus on Palace Gates Road opposite the shops (stop isn’t marked very well but is opposite Alex’s Café). Stop at Victoria Road and the park is on your left.