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 seventh year running in 2024.
Woodford Park Facilities & Activities
- War Memorial
- Play Areas
- Toddler Paddling Pool (open in the summer months)
- Skate Park
- Woodford Park Leisure Centre (link)
- The Oakwood Centre, incl. public toilets (link)
- Crumbs Cafe (link)
- 3G Artificial Grass Pitch
- Rotary Garden
- Garden of Remembrance
- Lake (new Duck Feeder)
- 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
Friends of Woodford Park (FoWP)
Woodford Park has an active friends group, Friends of Woodford Park, which carries out activities and projects in the park.
Woodford Park Destination Play Area
In June 2022, the Town Council installed a new destination play area in Woodford Park. You can watch a short video about this on our YouTube channel.
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 see our Memorials page for more information.
Duck Feeder
We have partnered with The Feed Ducks Initiative to install a Solar Powered Duck Feed Dispenser at Woodford Park Lake. The feeder takes contactless payments (no cash) and dispenses small quantities of healthy feed that is suitable for the diet of ducks and other wildfowl, reducing the amount of foreign feed such as bread, which can make them unwell as it does not contain the right nutrition or calories they need to grow and keep warm. Excess rotting food can also lead to silt build-up in the ecosystem, which can attract vermin and create ideal conditions for disease outbreaks that can threaten biodiversity and wildfowl. The feeder is in line with our climate commitment, as each one is made from recycled plastics, equivalent to 20,000 plastic bottles. The feeder also reduces plastic litter waste because the feed is dispensed to hand. It has been provided for free and is fully maintained by The Feed Ducks Initiative. Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated back to invest in the park.
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.