We love a trip to the park and have been compiling lists of the different ones around Norwich, including what you will find there and why we like them…
10 Parks Play Areas in Norwich
Norwich Parks and Playgrounds Volume II
Abinger Way Childrens Play Grounds, NR4 6ND
Age Group: Toddler play area
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Argyle Street Childrens Play Ground, NR1 2DA
Age Group: Toddler/Junior play areas
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Ashby street, off queens road, NR1 3PU
Age Group: Toddler/Junior play areas
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Astley Road Childrens Play Ground, NR5 9LS
Age Group: Toddler/Junior
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Atkinson Close, NR5 9NE
Age Group: Young people
Activities: Football with Goals
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Barkers Lane Playing Field, Barkers Lane, NR7
This area is a large informal playing field with community shelter and football goal. Access is via Barkers Lane, Church Lane or the Millennium Woodland.
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Belvoir street, NR2 3AZ
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities: Football with Goals
Multi Use Gaming Area
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Bowthorpe Cycleway, Swaffield Street
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:Football with Goals
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Britannia Road, NR1 4HL
Age Group: Young people
Activities:
Cricket
Football
Pavillion
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Burhill close, NR4 6LX
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Football
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Bussey Road Childrens Play Ground, NR6 6JF
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Castle Green Childrens Play Ground, NR1 3DD
Age Group: Toddler play areas
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Chapel Break Village Centre, NR5 9LU
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Football
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Chapelfield Gardens, Chapelfield East, NR2 1NY
Age Group: Toddler/Junior
Parking: No
Toilet: Currently closed
Chestnut Hill Childrens Play Ground, NR4 6NR
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Clarendon Steps, Bathhurst Road, NR2 2PA
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Clover Hill Village Centre, NR5 9BN
Age Group: Young people
Activities:
Casual Football
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Cranes Croft and Hall Wood Road (off Blue Boar Lane)
These two enclosed play areas are suitable for younger children aged 3 – 9 and have a range of play equipment.
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Danby Close Childrens Play Ground, NR4 6LD
Age Group: Toddler/Junior play areas
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Eagle Walk, NR2 2JA
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Football
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Eaton Green, Lindford Drive, NR4 6LR
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Football with Goals
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Eaton Park, South Park Avenue, NR4 7AU
www.friendsofeatonpark.co.uk
Eaton Park is open all day, every day, 365 days a year. Entry is free.
Activities:
Bandstand
Bowls
Basketball
Community centre
Crazy golf
Cricket
Cycle speedway
Football
Footgolf
Fountain
Lily pond
Miniature railway
Model boating pond
Multi-use games area
Norwich Parkrun
Pitch and putt
Play area
Putting
Skate park
Tennis (hard) (Advance bookings and pay and play)
Parking: Yes
Café: Yes
Toilet: Yes
Fitzmaurice Park, Pound Lane NR7 0UN
The Fitzmaurice Park, Pound Lane is the most recent Park and to have recently undergone extensive work to become the main ‘events’ park. It is home to the annual Fireworks displays and St Georges Day Fete. The Park has a floodlit MUGA area, childrens play area, slide and a zipwire.
Parking:
Toilet:
Fourways Open Space, NR5 8TN
Age Group: Young People
Activities:
Football
Basketball
Multi Use Games Area
Shelter
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Gildencroft, NR3 1DS
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Casual football
Basketball
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Gilman Road/ The Desert, NR3 4JB
Age Group: Young people
Activities:
Football
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Greenfields, Ives Road, NR6 6DG
Age Group: Toddler, Young People
Activities:
Basketball
5 a side football with goals
Trail
Multi Use Gaming Area
Skate park
Shelter
Half Pipe
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Harford Park, Ipswich Road, NR4 6LQ
Age Group: Junior/toddler play areas
Activities:
Basketball
Bowls
Cycle speedway
Football with Goals
Tennis
Multi Use Gaming Area
Shelter
Parking: Yes
Toilet: No
Heartsease, Sale Road, NR7 9TW
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Basketball
Football with Goals
Multi Use Gaming Area
Skate park
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Heigham Park, The Avenues, NR2 3HW
Age Group: Junior and toddler play area
Activities:
Bowls
Tennis (grass)
Parking: No
Toilet: Yes
Holls Lane Childrens Play Ground, NR1 3HH
Age Group: Junior
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Jenny Lind, NR2 2SW
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Basketball
Football
Multi-use games area
Parking: No
Toilet: Yes
Jubilee Park, NR1 2EX
Age Group: Junior and toddler play area
Activities:
Basketball
Football
Multi-use games area
Trail
Shelter
Parking: Yes
Toilet: No
Ketts Cave, NR3 1NH
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Multi-use games area
Football
Basketball
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Laundry Lane, Recreation Ground, NR7 0XQ
It has numerous football pitchs, tennis courts and woodland walks. The site has two childrens play areas which are next to the Morse Pavilion. The site is home to the St Andrews Football Club and is next to the Recreation Bowling Club.
Parking: Yes
Toilet: No
Leonards Street Childrens Play Ground, NR3 3BW
Age Group: Toddler/Junior
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Marion Road Childrens Play Ground, NR1 4BP
Age Group: Toddler/Junior play areas
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Marlpit Community Centre, NR6 5EQ
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Milecross Gardens, NR3 2RS
Age Group: Junior
Activities:
Activity trail
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Millennium Woodland, Church Lane, NR7 8A
Backing onto open farm land and situated opposite Sprowston cemetery it is a tranquil and peaceful place to visit. There is wheelchair access for 130 metres into the woodland via Church Lane, seating throughout the site and an information interpretation board to help visitors identify various species. To attract more wildlife bug houses have been placed in various locations around the woodland. Pedestrian access is via Church Lane, Barkers Lane Playing Field, Millennium Loke/Wilks Farm Drive.
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Music House Lane Childrens Play Ground, NR1 1QH
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Netherwood Green Childrens Play Ground, NR1 2JF
Age Group: Toddler/Junior play areas
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Pointers Field, NR3 2RB
Age Group: Junior/Young people
Activities:
Casual goals football
Multi-use gaming area
Shelter
Climbing wall
Trail
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Recreation Ground, Sprowston, NR7 8QJ
Activities:
Open space to enjoy ball games, Kick wall with basketball hoop, 2 full size and one mini football pitches, cricket pitch, bowling green, ten tennis courts (two hard surfaces and eight grass), purpose built cycle fun track suitable for off road pedal cycles, small children’s play area with swings, slide, climbing frame, see-saw and spring mobiles.
Parking: Yes
Toilet: Yes
http://www.sprowston-tc.gov.uk/leisure/parks-and-open-spaces/
River Green, NR7 0SG
Often described as the ‘Jewel of Thorpe St Andrew’, River Green is an idyllic picnic and leisure area on the Norfolk Broads. River Green is also the location of the War Memorial and is the site of the Town VE Day and Rembembrance services.
Parking:
Toilet:
We’ve got a lot of fabulous parks in and around Norwich with some great children’s equipment. However, after a great chat within the Norwich Mumbler chat room, we’re also adding a post about Sandy parks in the area.
Have a look here, enjoy the sand in your shoes after a visit, and let us know if there are any we’ve missed!
🏝 Waterloo Park, Norwich, NR3 3HX. A large sandy area, take buckets and spades, surrounding the children’s splash pad in the children’s play park area. Usually very busy in the summer and school holidays. Since coronavirus, the splash pad has been closed. Toilets available and chat locally that a new cafe will open there soon, after the last one closed.
🏖 Eaton Park 2 S Park Ave, Norwich NR4 7AU. A large sandy area in the children’s play park with fun play equipment to use in the sand. Toilets are available near the excellent cafe. Takeaway food and drink right now.
🏝 St Clements Park, Norwich, NR3 3QD. Fairly large sandy area to play in, enough for buckets and spades and a good dig! A lovely big slide which ends in the sand. No toilets or cafe, but this is my hidden gem, it’s a beautiful tucked away park with plenty of children’s equipment to play on.
🏖 Sandy Park, Mousehold, Norwich, NR3 4RN. Known and loved locally as ‘the sandy park’ this one has the best views of Norwich. A large sandy area underneath the play equipment with plenty of room for everyone to play. A local group “friends of Sandy Park” are also clearing the area around it to make it more accessible for children to play in the nearby Heath. No toilets or cafe here, just great views and sand.
🏝 Wensum Park, Norwich, NR3 2DD. Two sandy areas, a smaller one with a climbing frame and fixed buckets to move sand around and a larger one in the children’s play area which has plenty of room to play. No toilets or cafe here, but there are plenty of ducks and geese to see too.
🏖 Jenny Lind Park, Norwich, NR2 2SW. Basketball, football and a multi use area. Fantastic children’s area with play equipment and safely enclosed. Play area has sand for digging and playing in. Toilets available. Parking and shops surrounding the outside of the park.
Thanks to the Mumbler chat room, here are more parks with sand on the list. However, I haven’t been to these ones yet, clearly it’s time I did! Feel free to tell us more about them on the Norwich Mumbler Chat Group
🏝 Danby Wood, Norwich, NR4 6LY. No parking or toilets.
🏖 Heigham Park, 58-36 Jessopp Rd, Norwich NR2 3JF. Junior and toddler play area. Bowls and grass tennis, no toilets.
🏝 Heartsease, Sale Road, NR7 9TW. Basketball, football, multi use area, outdoor gym, skate park. No parking or toilets.
🏖 Jubilee Park, Long John Hill, Norwich. Junior and toddler play area, basketball, football, multi use games area, trail, shelter. No toilets but there is parking available.
🏝 Eagle Baths Park, Norwich, NR2 4LY. Toddler’s play area, no parking or toilets.
For other parks and playgrounds in Norwich, have a look at 10 Parks & Play Areas in Norwich and 10 Parks and Playgrounds – Volume II
Sarah Williman Close Childrens Play Ground, NR5 8BL
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Sloughbottom Park, Drayton Road, Norwich, NR3 2PW
The world class BMX track at Sloughbottom Park is open to the general public free of charge all year round.
The track is also home to Norwich Flyers BMX Club which runs regular training sessions and local/regional competitions.
The club, run by volunteers, is open to people of all ages and caters for beginners through to World Championship finalists.
Sloughbottom Park, NR3 2BN
Age Group: Toddler/Junior
Activities:
Basketball
BMX
Football Adult
Football Junior
Football Mini
Multi-use games area
Pavillion
Parking: Yes
Toilet: Yes
Sparhawk Park, Sprowston, NR7 8BU
Activities:
Two children’s play areas one fenced for infants incorporating roundabout, circular cone climber, spinning apparatus and slide. The other is a large open play area, suitable for older children, with swings, multi-climbing frame and aerial runway. There are also public conveniences, seats, picnic tables and litter bins. Soft ball games only, cycles may not be ridden and no dogs allowed except for registered assistance dogs.
Parking: No
Toilet: Yes
St Pauls Childrens Play Ground, Willis Street, NR3 1SN
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Stylman Road Childrens Play Ground, NR5 9ES
Age Group: Toddler/Junior
Parking: No
Toilet: No
The Runnel Childrens Play Ground, NR5 9NZ
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Football
Thurlby Road Childrens Play Ground, NR5 9LU
Age Group: Toddler
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Waterloo Park, NR3 3HX
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Activities:
Football
Tennis
Children’s Splash Pad (Closed until Spring Bank Holiday weekend May 2017)
Parking: Yes
Toilet: Yes
West End Street, NR2 4DP
Age Group: Toddler/Junior/Young People
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Wilks Farm Drive Play Area, Sprowston, NR7 8RG
This large open play area is sited to the North of Wilks Farm Drive next to the Millennium woodland backing onto farm land. A tarmac pathway runs across the site from North Walsham to the woodland. Facilities include open grassed play area, multi climbing frames, swings, slides and some seating.
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Windsor Park Gardens, Sprowston, NR6 7PR
Winner of Broadland District Council’s Green Award 2008 this park and open space overlooks the Redmayne Playing Field and includes swings, multi activity unit, kick wall, basketball hoop and seating.
Parking: No
Toilet: No
Woodrow Pilling Park, NR1 4PA
Age Group: Young People
Activities:
Basketball
Cricket
Cycling
Football
BMX track
Multi-use games area
Shelter
Parking: Yes
Toilet: No
