Acton Park
Where is it?
The main entrance is from the Uxbridge Road. Access also from The Vale, East Acton Avenue and Churchfields Road.
Getting there
- bus: 207, 266, 70, E3
- tube: Acton Town (Piccadilly and District line)
- train: Acton Central
- parking: no car parking facilities onsite; the nearest car park is located on the East Churchfield Road next to St Mary’s Burial Ground
Facilities
- bowling green and pavilion
- tennis courts
- multi use games area
- play centre
- play ground
- café - opening times 10am-5pm all week but times may change during the winter season
- pond
- Apple art block who run community and art projects with young people
- tennis courts
- basketball/football court
- climbing block
About the park
Acton Park offers many important facilities and features which provide recreational, ecological, horticultural, landscape and heritage benefits. The park is a well respected and loved site by the local community. It can get busy, especially during the summer months.
Brief history of site
The park opened to the public in 1888 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. A dying Dutch Elm tree, one of the last in the borough, close to the main entrance has been transformed into a dramatic 28-foot carved statue called the Twilight Tree.
The northern boundary was changed and disturbed during the 1939-1945 war. There were allotments in this part of the site but in October 1945 prefabs were constructed to house ex servicemen. There was a sloping bank on the north side of the park, but it was removed when the prefabs were taken away.
The middle entrance on the northern boundary is a modern addition to the park, created as a result of a flying bomb demolishing numbers 4, 6, 8 and 10 East Churchfields Road. A railing extends around the park on the north eastern and south eastern sides. Most of the railings are modern but there are some historic ones at the entrances.
Wildlife value
A nature conservation area is in the southern part of the site, where there is a large pond, a hedge and a wildflower meadow. It also has many important old trees with some excellent specimens.