The Parks & Countryside Service manages approximately 50 parks and 30 countryside sites.
These sites are generally located in the urban areas and tend to be heavily used for recreation or for short cuts to and from shops and schools. Many of these sites contain facilities such as sports pitches and childrens play areas. They range in size from less than an acre to the 48 acre site at Lily Hill Park in Bracknell.
The Countryside Sites tend to have a more naturalistic feel to them. Many sites are woodlands, while others include river meadows and heathland. The sites are managed to maintain their high nature conservation and landscape value, often using traditional techniques such as grazing, coppicing, and hedge laying and are very popular with people wanting to get-away-from-it-all. Walkers, horse riders, dog walkers and cyclists use them throughout the year. These sites cover approximately 500 acres and range in size from less than an acre to the 84 acre site at Shepherd Meadows, Sandhurst.
Several of the parks and countryside sites in the borough contain ponds that hold excess water in times of flood. For more information, visit our web page about balancing ponds.
Many of the parks and countryside sites are described in more detail on individual site pages listed to the right of this page. The Service also produces site leaflets that are available via the Parks and Countryside Leaflet page.
If you do not find the information you need, please contact us on the details to the right of this page.
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