Woodley Town Council

Parks and open spaces in Woodley

Woodley Town Council Parks

We look after the following parks in Woodley:

• Woodford Park
• Wheble Park
• Malone Park
• Bulmershe Park
• Rivermead open space
• Loddon Mead open space

Please email admin@woodley.gov.uk or call 0118 9690356 to report any issues with these parks.

Wokingham Borough Council Parks

Wokingham Borough Council looks after the following parks in Woodley:

• Alderwood play area
• Ashenbury Park
• Badgers Rise play area
• Blanchard Close play area
• Enstone Road play area
• Hearn Road play area
• Mollison Way play area
• Redwood Avenue play area
• Sandford Park
• Southlake Park
• Southlake Crescent play area
• Vauxhall Drive play area
• Vauxhall BMX
• Woodley Town Centre play area

Please contact Wokingham Borough Council if there are any issues with these parks. You can find more information and report any issues online HERE.

Our parks and green spaces

Woodford Park

Woodford Park is located in the centre of Woodley and provides a diverse range of facilities for residents and visitors of all ages. Woodford Park is the first park in the Wokingham Borough area to receive Green Flag status, and joins other green spaces awarded this recognition across the UK. It was awarded Green Flag status for the fifth year running in 2022.

Woodford Park facilities and activities

• War Memorial
• Play Areas
• Toddler Paddling Pool (open in the summer months)
• Skate Park
• Woodford Park Leisure Centre (WPLC)
• The Oakwood Centre (public toilets)
• Brown Bag Cafe
• 3G Artificial Grass Pitches
• Rotary Garden
• Garden of Remembrance
• Lake
• Community Orchard
• Queens 90th Birthday Garden
• Queen’s Green Canopy Platinum Jubilee Tree
• Regular events including Woodley Carnival, funfairs, circus
• Weekly parkrun
• Free parking at WPLC

Woodford Park has an active friends group, Friends of Woodford Park,  which carries out activities and projects in the park.

Download the Woodford Park Management Plan

We installed a new play area in Woodford Park in June 2022. You can watch a short video about this on our YouTube channel HERE.

Garden of Remembrance

The Garden of Remembrance within Woodford Park was opened in 2000 and provides a place for quiet contemplation.

The Garden is non-denominational and the names of loved ones who are no longer with us can be inscribed on brass plaques which are then placed on wooden posts around the garden. (We can no longer offer engraving on the large stone in the centre of the garden due to lack of space).

If you wish to remember a loved one in this way, please feel free to contact us for further information on 0118 969 0356 or at admin@woodley.gov.uk.

Memorial Ground

Situated next to Woodford Park on Headley Road, The Memorial Ground has been held in trust by the Town Council, since 1939 for ‘the recreation and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the Civil Parish of Woodley and Sandford’. The land was originally bought in 1919, by the former trustees, as a memorial to the men of Woodley who died in the First World War. In 2018, to commemorate the centenary of WWI, we had the Memorial gates updated and installed panels about Woodley during WWI. You can read more about these HERE.

Wheble Park

A small grassed park with a play area off Wheble Drive.

Malone Park

A small grassed park with a children’s play area off Malone Road.

Bulmershe Park

An open space off Pitts Lane, behind the Reading Road allotment site, it is jointly maintained by Earley and Woodley Town Councils.

Rivermead open space

A small fenced off grassed area on Rivermead Road.

Loddon Mead open space

A small area of open space off Loddon Bridge Road leading down to the River Loddon.