Facilities and features
- Play area - located off the main avenue and adjacent to the pavilion. It was extended under the HLF project in order to cater for teenagers, younger children and toddlers. It also includes a lido that was decommissioned in 2006 and is due to be replaced with an interactive water feature in 2010.
- Picnic area – adjacent to the play area and Pavilion.
- The Bandstand - an impressive centrepiece of the formal gardens that resembles the original. Includes a flight of steps featuring decorative railing panels designed by students at Pool Hayes Community School, and replica acorn finial on top of a stone pillar.
- Pavilion - constructed in 2004/5 to replace the former ‘temporary’ buildings, comprised of external and internal toilets, disabled toilets, baby changing areas, gardener’s office, park rangers’ office, plant room, two multi-use rooms, support workers office and training kitchen/refreshments kiosk. In addition to PIR operated lighting the building is protected by a 24-hour recording CCTV system.
- A teenage shelter - adjacent to the skate park
- Grassed facilities - a formal sports area at Noose Lane (Extension), a fenced bowling green that is used extensively throughout the year for club matches and practice sessions, an events area (bordered by Lime Avenue/bridleway) and the Top Field overspill events area and Aston Road Playing Field (The Devil).
- Paved sports facilities - two tennis courts, a multi-use games area and skate park.
- Formal gardens - a more or less circular garden space centred on a bandstand and which includes a pergola feature, planting bed with climbing and rambling roses and a mixture of shrubs and herbaceous plants, raised beds with dry stone walls and specimen/feature plants with a selection of shrubs and specimen trees.
- Areas of shrubbery - between the formal gardens and the overspill events area and a rhododendron bed opposite the Dartmouth Avenue entrance.
- Bedding displays - seven around the bandstand and one lock and key shaped display in a circular raised bed at the main entrance.
- Trees and Woodland - a large tree population including trees planted in the 1920s. In 1996 Italian poplar comprised 40 % of the tree population with approximately 35% made up of longer-lived, slow growing species such as lime, beech, maple and ash. Other poplars, silver birch, laburnum, various cherries, various willows, whitebeam, rowan, apple trees, hornbeam, hawthorn, elm, cedar, oak and horse chestnut made up the remaining 25%.
- Fishing pool and natural pond - created as a result of the HLF project with new fishing pegs around the main fishing pool, upgraded paths and furniture items and catering for the disabled. It also includes a boardwalk, pond dipping platform, work bench, timber post and rail fence and crushed brick footpaths around the natural pond The inlet and outlet streams are culverted watercourses that are believed to be tributaries of the River Tame.
- Sculptures and Memorials - Eight unique way markers, designed by Planet Art, are at regular intervals to mark health walk routes around the Park, a VE Memorial by the Pavilion and a plaque situated near the tree avenue refers to its reinstatement in 1997 to commemorate the victims of the Dunblane tragedy.
Willenhall Memorial Park is a popular venue for a range of community events and activities organised by Walsall Council Greenspace Services in partnership with the Friends of Willenhall Memorial Park and our community partners.
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If you are organising an event which you would like to hold in Willenhall Memorial Park you must complete an online application form to hold an event in a park or open space. Please ensure you give sufficient notice otherwise it may not be possible to grant permission.
Contact us
Willenhall Memorial Park
Pinson Road
Willenhall
Walsall
WV13 2PW
Telephone 01922 654370 (Parks hotline)
Email parksmanager@walsall.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 05 December 2011