Bakewell Recreation Ground — Attraction in Derbyshire Dales

Beautiful park, wonderful play area and plenty of open space for the grandkids to run around and kick a football.

However, I was not too pleased when I allowed my grandson to play in the water park area and 2 mins later just as he got all wet the water went off. All the children playing were dumbstruck. We waited about 10 mins then checking on line I found the play area shuts down between 12:30-1:30!!!! Just great! I see u have had issues with a local resident which I understand, but there were no notices to that effect and about 10 wet children were extremely disappointed. We were visitors to the park and I wasn’t very happy, my grandson even worse.

Who made up this daft rule? Who decided that signs to show this effect weren’t in place? And why, why why do you have to shut it for an hour in the middle of the day during a heatwave in school holidays?

An answer to these questions I await with...

Beautiful, gentle walk The river running through is still enough to see the fish and with swans, ducks and geese happy to pose for photos such a tranquil environment. Why only three stars then. Lack of toilet facilities. We visited two years ago and it was 20p for the toilets with no option to get get change( an attendant who does not supply change). The card reader machine was not working then and the same situation two years on. The queue for the ladies was long with around 15 people queuing on the pavement. An English treasure of a town not supplying...

0n a visit to the water park, with my 2 grandchildren we went to visit thd waterpark. They were very excited but sadly when we got there, all of the activities at the water park were switched off😭. I cannot understand why the council removed the paddling pool and replaced it with a few water fountains that do not work. This visit was during the school holidays. Does the council not understand how important it is for children to be able to have fun in the water park. Very very disappointed especially with 2 very...