Barkers Park
Facilities
- 2 Bowling Greens
- Multi use games area
- Children's play equipment
- Toilets
- Car parking
- Pavilion (available for community hire)
- Steps to health route
- 5 Football pitches
- Senior (Class B
Events
History
Barkers Park is a popular green space and well used by all ages. Covering almost 15 hectares of land the site was once rolling farmland before being open cast mined in 1945/46. There is also evidence that shallow coal mining took places over 200 years ago by ancient methods such as bell pit working (evidence of bell pits can be found in nearby Redscope Plantation)
Today the land is laid out as an attractive park and recreation ground. It is the hub of its local community and provides a perfect setting for meandering walks and passive recreation. Situated adjacent to Redscope Plantation and to the nearby Bray Plantation and Scholes Coppice a number of local walks can be enjoyed with a variety of surroundings.
Friends of Barkers Park
There is an active community group working voluntarily for the best interests of the park. This group is known as the Friends of Barkers Park who are working very hard with ourselves to improve the facilities and create new features in the park. In recent years the Friends group have been able seek funding for a new play area and Multi Use Games Area for football, cricket and basketball. An attractive Rose Garden and seating area has now been completed and provides a relaxing place in a well used park.
If you would like to become involved with the Friends of Barkers Park, please contact us.
How to find us
Barkers Park,Redscope Crescent,
Kimberworth Park,
S61 3LY
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