Central Park (Dagenham) — Attraction in London

Very large community park with number of excellent features. A brilliant and exciting place for bringing your family and/or young children for having a friendly football kick about or running or having fun in the Children's Play Areas.

Very Good for taking a breeze walk, running, cycling or jogging or just have a quite time relaxing while sipping a cup of coffee in the beautiful scenic seating garden in the Kiosk - when it's open.

Dagenham Civic Centre is in one corner which now hosts Coventry University London (CU London). Central Park Dagenham is made up of Public Toilets (now closed due to COVID-19), 3x FREE car parks, Adventure Play Area, Children's Play Area, 18-Holes Golf Course, Football Pitches, Rugby Pitches (including floodlights), Tennis Courts, Memorial Garden, Community Orchard, Kiosk by the Golf Course, Outdoor Gym, Pavilion, Nursery, Ambassador's Wood, large Green Space, and much more!

The Peace and Memorial Garden: only recently found out about this place! A historic community memorial garden to remember the heroes and to improve the local communities! It is between the Civic Centre (currently CU London campus) and Fire Station.

Trees at the Community Orchard are growing fast and are almost ready to mature - community can harvest and enjoy the fruits! The Orchard is managed organically & stands on wildlife meadowand mostly of 🍏 🍐 Trees. It was planted in 2015 in partnership with the local community marking the 50th Anniversary of the borough - Barking and Dagenham! Unless you are aware of this Orchard or aware of the Park inside out - one cannot find this Orchard easily!

Signages around the park needs to be improved and thus, increasing the effective usage of this...

Once upon a time I would said this was a wonderful place for all. Open spaces for children, families, dog walking and the elderly all would have enjoyed the safe open space with its playing fields, bowling club, mini golf, cafe and growing area. There used to be a fantastic town show which culminated at the park with many local businesses, fire brigade, police, ambulance, air, produce stalls, learning areas etc etc. All now more. NOW I would say don't bother. It is a dirty, muddy, unsafe. The facilities would attractd all. Many of the trees have been cut down. They were not all dead or dangerous. The local council has allowed thousands of tons of soil to be trucked in and dipped creating huge mounds. These mound are slowing being covered with grass but already bikers etc have made ruts and muddy trenches. Huge amounts of water runs off of these mounds creating enormous lakes of filthy dangerous water. Dog walkers are a rate sight now. The Little Leagues that used the playing fields are no more. Walkers are few and far between. Older people also now avoid the park as it does not feel safe. All of the above is my own personal experience and observations. I could...

What a depressing park. Entering from the Legon Avenue entrance there are dumped cars, a bin wrapped in plastic but still being used by dog owners, so there are bags of poo all over the floor. The grass has not been cut so the field cannot be used for ball games or picnics, the playground and basket ball pitch are surrounded by three foot high grass and weeds. The toilets are located near the pitch and putt course and are awful, really old, no soap or hand driers. New hills and paths have been randomly created and after rain some of the paths flood. Hundreds of new trees were planted, most of the small ones have now disappeared in the long grass and the big ones look mostly dead. The new toddler playground is very nice, but again surrounded by long grass so older children cannot play nearby while toddlers use the playground. The new adventure equipment still has the construction safety fences around it, doesn't look like there are any bins nearby so rubbish is being left in the long grass. Possibly the worst park I have...