No way around and only one accessible gate!
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Date of visit: September 2022
I have experience of challenges around: moving around
Overall Rating
Bad
After surveying an aerial view of this location on Google Maps, I thought I'd try a loop around it in my manual wheelchair as my Sunday morning dog walk. There is an accessible, elongated kissing-gate entrance into the park, and the path around the perimeter is of the hard, gravelly variety. Obviously, this is always tough going in a self-propelled manual chair, but - aside from a few gentle slopes and an occasional camber - it is fairly level. Unfortunately, the path does not extend all the way around the park perimeter. It comes to a halt at the southwest corner. The small kissing-gate they have at this point is inaccessible for wheelchairs, which means one cannot even go out onto Warwick Road and use the pavement instead. In fact, all the gates (aside from the car park gate) seem to be of this type, and thus inaccessible to anyone with wheels. As my chair will not go across grass, I had no choice but to turn around and go back the way I'd come. Perhaps just a small frustration in the grand scheme of things, but it's always disappointing to see issues like this when the location would otherwise have been accessible.
Disabled Access In and Around
Bad
It's disappointing. Only one of the gates is wheelchair accessible, and the path does not go all the way around. If your chair can't handing going off-road, you're stuck!
Parking & Transport
Good
I travelled by car and parked in the free car park. There are no marked bays (and thus no disabled bays) but there are very rarely so many cars there that this poses any issues with regard to having enough space for wheelchair unloading. The tarmac surface of the car park makes for easy wheeling.
Accessible Toilets
0There are no lavatories at this location, accessible or otherwise.
