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Parks and recreation

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Parks and gardens

Please use the online forms or the contact details below to report any problems you come across in the parks:

Chatham

  • Chestnut Avenue - Walderslade. Entrance opposite Repton Way and from footpath on Mafeking Road.
  • Princes Avenue - Walderslade.
  • Riverside Gardens - Dock Road, Chatham.
  • The Paddock - Chatham Town Centre.
  • Town Hall Gardens - Rope Walk - entrances on Whiffens Avenue and Rope Walk.
  • Victoria Gardens - Fort Pitt Hill.
  • Waghorn Memorial - Railway Street.

Rochester

  • Castle Gardens - access from Bakers Walk and Castle Hill.
  • The Esplanade - beside the river, upriver from Rochester Bridge.
  • Churchfields - Esplanade, opposite Hathaway Court.
  • Copperfield Road and Breton Road - access from Copperfield Road or the footpath on Marley Way.
  • Fort Clarence - Borstal Road, opposite Gun Tower Mews.
  • Fort Pitt Gardens - between Fort Pitt Hill and New Road, entrances on Fort Pitt Hill.
  • Friston Way
  • Shaws Pond
  • The Vines Gardens - entrances on Crow Lane, Vines Lane and The Precinct.

Gillingham

  • Balmoral Gardens - Balmoral Road, access from Green Street (over the railway footbridge) or from a footpath on Balmoral Road.
  • Chesham Park - between Chesham Drive and Ploughman's Way, Rainham.
  • Cozenton Park - Bloors Lane, Rainham - entrances: Bloors Lane, next to Splashes Leisure Centre; from the library on Birling Avenue; from the footpath on High Elms. The site includes Cozenton nursery, which has demonstration gardens and is the venue for Medway’s annual garden festival, in addition to producing all the bedding and decorative plants for the council.
  • Ellison Way - Ellison Way, Rainham.
  • Fairview Avenue - Fairview Avenue, Wigmore.
  • Gillingham Park - entrances on Canterbury Street, Park Avenue and Oxford Road.
    Medway Council and Groundwork Kent and Medway are currently working on a Stage 1 Heritage Lottery Fund Parks for People Programme application for Gillingham Park.
    View a draft of the master plan (pdf 470KB) for the future of the site.
    The application will be submitted at the end of September 2008.
  • Great Lines - Brompton - access from York Avenue, Marlborough Road, King's Bastion and Sally Port Gardens.

  • Parish Churchyard and Grange Road - Gillingham.
  • Parkwood Green - Deanwood Drive, Parkwood.
  • Peverel Green - Long Catlis Road, Parkwood, between Plomley Close and Chipstead Road. Access via footpaths on Long Catlis Road, Chipstead Road, Plomley Close, Nares Road and Collet Walk.
  • Platters Park - access via footpaths from The Platters and The Mailyns, Rainham.
  • Sovereign Boulevard - along the A2 from Gillingham to Rainham.
  • St Mark's Church - junction of Canterbury Street and High Street.
  • St Mary's Road, Gillingham.
  • Swan Gardens - Wood Street, Brompton.
  • Tyler Drive - Parkwood.
  • Vinalls Park - Broadway, Twydall. Enclosed by Geneva Avenue and Locarno Avenue.
  • Wigmore Park - Wigmore Road, Wigmore. Access via footpaths from Wigmore Road, Fairview Avenue and Bredhurst Road.

Strood and the rural areas

  • Brookmead Road - Brookmead Road, Cliffe Woods.
  • Broomhill - access via Farm Hill Avenue; long footpath from Pepys Way; footpath from Brompton Lane; footpath from Lychfield Drive; footpath from Rosemount Court.
  • Church Green - Frindsbury.
  • Cliffe Woods - Merryboys Road, Cliffe Woods. Entrance on Merryboys Road.
  • Ferry Meadows - Howlsmere Close, Halling.
  • Gravesend Road - Strood.
  • Laburnum Road - access from Lilac Road, footpath from Holly Road and several access points along Laburnum Road.
  • Northcote Road - Strood. Access from Northcote Road, Woodstock Road and Downside.
  • Sycamore Road - Sycamore Road, Strood.
  • Temple Manor - Knight Road.
  • Temple Marsh - Knight Road.
  • Upnor Castle - High Street, Upnor.
  • Woodside Green - Woodside Green, Cliffe Woods. Access from View Road and Parkside.

For further information contact:
email icon Email : info@medway.gov.uk
Telephone icon Telephone : 01634 306000
Mail icon Write to : Medway Council
Gun Wharf
Dock Road
Chatham
Kent ME4 4TR
Minicom icon Minicom :

01634 333111


Related A-Z index
Recreation grounds and playing fields | Caring for the country parks | Booking information for school visits | Riverside Country Park | How to find Riverside Country Park | Other countryside sites in Medway | South Wood | Great Lines | Darland Banks | Capstone Farm Country Park | How to find Capstone Farm Country Park | Children's countryside events | Conservation groups and volunteering | Countryside - rural development | Education in the country parks | School visits to Capstone Farm Country Park | Greenspace services | Play areas in Gillingham | Play areas in Chatham | Play areas in Lordswood and Walderslade | all related items »

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