Congleton Park Facilities
We are continually looking for ways to improve our park for visitors and wildlife, if you have an idea for park improvements please do get in touch! Listed below are the top facilities, something for all ages.
Thanks to Friends of Congleton Park and monies kindly donated by Redrow Homes, we installed a table tennis table in Congleton Park for all to enjoy. Bring your own bats and ball, we will try and keep a set available at Stocks.
Stock at the Pavilion
Stock at the Pavilion has served customers in beautiful Congleton Park for 14 years. Brought back to life by local girl and Director Lisa Whitehurst she can be seen daily, behind the bar or whizzing around making sure all is running smoothly at Stock).
Award Winning Food
Everything we do is all about quality and consistency. All food and cakes are made fresh to order in-house by us and we are renowned for our quality and customer service. Lisa and her team have consistently won awards and been in the top 2 positions on Trip Advisor for the last 10 years.
Stock works closely and has great working relationships with Congleton Town Council, Streetscape and Friends of Congleton Park, supporting charities and local businesses and is proud to be an integral part of the park and community of Congleton.
You must experience the Pavilion when you visit the park, and enjoy the quirky laid-back feel, its beauty and its character.
The Pavilion was designed and built in 1887
Bulit to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and acted as a social focus within the park. The Pavilion offers a light refreshment and informal dining service whilst providing some of the best views over the Jubilee Gardens. ‘Stock at The Pavilion’ is known as being the perfect venue for birthdays, christenings and celebrations as well as its hugely popular theme nights.
Wheelchair accessible
There are ramps to the side of the building, disabled parking and toilets.
Family friendly
There are baby changing facilities, high chairs, and will heat food and bottles on request.
Dog friendly
Except on Sundays when we ask for all dogs to be on the terrace only
Vegetarian & Gluten free food options
The Main Features
Children’s Play Area
This Play Area is immensely popular with Mums, Dads and Grandparents not to mention children of all ages. The surface is of special construction to help prevent/minimise injury if children trip, slip or fall as children do. It is ring-fenced with just two gates to help prevent children from wandering off. It is roughly speaking the site of the old tennis courts, which some of our older residents will remember.
In 2020 the play area had a makeover, The £100,000 project was made possible through a grant of £50,000 from FCC Communities Foundation with the remaining funding coming from housing developments in Congleton and the Cheshire East Parks Development fund.
The design for the play area and choice of facilities was agreed following feedback and consultation with a variety of interest groups, including local ward members, Congleton Town Council, Friends of Congleton Park, local nursery groups, youth clubs and schools.
Glen Williams, chairman of the Friends of Congleton Park, said
“Congleton Park is a thriving, vibrant park and we have captured many opportunities for numerous creative improvements over the years.
As the park enters its 150th anniversary, we see another chapter in its life, through this new extension. It is yet another example of this wonderful historical park making moves towards ensuring it is not only enjoyed but also capable of supporting the community of today and that of future generations.”
Park Bowling Green
The park Bowling Green is available free for individual public use outside of booked periods. Teams can hire the green throughout the year either for one-off sessions or throughout the bowling season. To view the availability of Bowling Green click here.
Teams can hire the green throughout the year either for one-off sessions or throughout the bowling season.
Email to book a bowling green. You will need to take your own bowls.
- Flat, tread free shoes only to be used on the green, (no heels of any description)
- Green to be used only for the playing of bowls
- Green to be vacated no later than dusk
- Respect other users of the green and the park
- Any damage caused during play should be reported to 01260 270350.
A view of the Town Wood from Congleton Park.
Viewing Point from the Town Wood, the site of the former Russian cannon. In the centre of the picture, you can see the Bowling Green.
Congleton Town Wood
Town Wood is an important biological resource in the heart of Congleton on the northern edge of Congleton Park. The wood is designated as an Ancient and Semi Natural Woodland as well as a county Site of Biological Importance
Ancient Semi-Natural woodland is described as being composed largely of trees, shrubs and ground flora that have grown through the process of natural regeneration, stump growth and coppice. In order for a woodland to be defined as ancient there must be evidence of continual woodland since 1600 AD. Semi-natural woodland is defined by the current tree and shrub crop within the site and these woodlands tend to be the most important for nature conservation, (English Nature 2001). The continuity of woodland cover is shown through the underwood and ground flora rather than the tree canopy and stand as the tree stand may change species but the ground flora will remain largely the same.
Situated on several natural springs the wood contains three distinct habitats, these being the wet flushes, oak / sycamore dominated canopy and the beech-dominated canopy. The wood is well known for its colourful carpets of spring flowers.
Some of the birds you may see as you walk through the wood include the Wren, Song Thrush, Blackcap, Nuthatch, Tree Creeper, Greater Spotted Woodpecker and Chiff Chaff along with other more common woodland species. All the paths through the woodland are of a formal bound gravel nature ensuring that the wood is accessible throughout the year. However, some of these paths are steep and contain steps.
The Circular Stone Fountain
One of the original features! Congleton Park’s designer Edward Kemp’s preference for a rockery set in a formal garden can be seen in the circular fountain added in 1886. This, made with a base of Biddulph Moor Stone, was placed in the middle of a circular flowerbed.
The Drinking Fountain Jubilee Gardens
The original drinking fountain was a gift to the town by Mrs. Howard of Brereton Hall in 1887, to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and stood at the bottom of Swan Bank. It remained a focus for this part of the town being both a drinking fountain for horses and a lantern. Iron cups were added to it to so that people could also have a drink!
The current drinking fountain, pictured above, used to stand by the old tennis courts, but was restored and moved to Jubilee Gardens.