Sanders Park
Sanders Park is Bromsgrove’s Premier Park which attracts over
350,000 visitors per year. The park, located close to the town
centre of Bromsgrove, was opened in 1968 and covers 16.3 hectares
to the west of Bromsgrove linking to countryside beyond. The area
of Sanders Park and the small valley of the Battlefield Brook has
for centuries been an important green space for the town. In the
area of the park by Watt Close there used to be an Elizabethan
water mill powered by the Battlefield Brook. This was converted in
the late eighteenth century to one of the first cotton spinning
factories in England finally ending its life as the first open air
swimming pool in the area which is now a water feature in the
park.
Sanders Park Pavilion Building and Cafe please click on the links provided.
Information on Events can be accessed through
the Bromsgrove 2011
Events Calendar
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Sanders Park
Kidderminster Road,
Bromsgrove
B61 7JP
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More about Sanders Park:-
It is thought that there are references to the
landscape of Battlefield Brook Valley and what is now Sanders Park
in the poems of the renowned poet and scholar A.E.Housman.
Sanders Park was named after two sisters who
bequeathed the site to Bromsgrove District Council to be used for
the health, relaxation and wellbeing of the people of Bromsgrove.
The District Council manages the park to meet the modern day needs
of the local community.
The park offers a wide range of facilities for
informal and formal recreation as well as a varied event programmes
throughout the year. These facilities include a flat outdoor
bowling green, two tennis courts, putting green, outdoor skate
park, two Multi Use Games areas and a state of the art children's
play area, Jubilee Bandstand and a pavilion housing a cafe,
information desk, ladies, gents and disabled toilets.
