Hopwood Park (Green Flag Award), Heywood

Hopwood Park is small pocket park crammed with facilities and features you would normally only expect in a bigger park.

Open every day

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There is free onsite parking at Hopwood Park.

Thanks to the partnership with the Friends of Hopwood Park, the park now boasts:

• Modern play area for older children with a picnic area nearby
• Multi-use games area and bowling green
• Pump track for bikes and skateboards
• Tree House Cafe
• Younger children's play area
• Wildflower meadow, floral features and a mini-orchard
• Path around the park so you can go for a stroll round
• New drainage scheme which feeds into a new wildlife pond. This means the main field is now good to use for informal recreation all year round, not just in dry weather.
• Regular events and activities in the park, especially over the summer holidays
• Guide dogs allowed

Council-run bowling greens close each year from 30 September until 1 April while we complete winter maintenance work.

• Accessible parking: there’s a small car park off Manchester Road (postcode OL10 2PP) which has one accessible parking bay. 
• Toilets: there's an accessible toilet situated in Hopwood Park Café which is adjacent to the car park and level access from Manchester Road.
• Paths:
  • There are g​​​​​ood flat tarmac paths throughout the park to the junior play area, around the park and kick pitch.
  • There's one short but fairly steep gradient from the car park to the main field.
  • There's a gravel surface around picnic tables.
• Seating: seating is available across the park.
• Play equipment:
  • The junior play area is fully wheelchair accessible and has a swing with an inclusive seat.
  • The adventure play area is located in a grassed area with no direct access paths to the equipment.

Hopwood Park was created over a period of time.

Edward Robert Gregge-Hopwood sold the land to us in sections between 1909 and 1928. The sale included covenants to protect the land for recreational use.

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