Chestnuts Park

Facilities

Chestnuts park has:

• a basketball area – informal, no need to book 
• a café  
• a multi-use games area 
• an outdoor gym 
• a playground 
• tennis courts – book a court on the Chestnuts Park tennis website
• a toilet 
• a zip wire 

Willow garden and orchard 

The park has a community willow garden and fruit tree orchard.  

Get involved

The Friends of Chestnuts Park volunteer group was formed in 2000. 

They’ve successfully campaigned for improvements to the park and organise events. 

To find out more about the group and get involved, see our list of Friends of Parks groups.

Park management 

To find out how the park is managed see our park management reports page.

Green Flag Award 

First awarded the prestigious Green Flag Award in 2008, the park has kept it ever since. 

To ask for a copy of the Green Flag report see our parks report page.

History

Chestnuts Park used to be a watercress farm. The stream running through the land is contained in an underground tunnel. 

Where the community centre is, there used to be a large house called Chestnuts House, built around 1850. The house was demolished in the 1980s but some of the brick entrance columns remain. 

Report a problem

Report a park issue on our report a problem page.