Gladstone Park — Attraction in London

Gladstone Park is a delightful space and has been an absolute blessing for us during this last 18 months or so. I call it my life-saver as we have had to shield for most of this time. There are parts of the park where you can almost feel that you are in the country-side. The work of the gardeners, grounds maintenance workers, community volunteers and managers, I believe deserves great recognition. We particularly appreciate the areas that have been re-wilded to create a wonderful habitat for bees and other insects and wild-life. For the first time in many years, I have actually noticed the sound of grass-hoppers and seen them hopping around amongst the beautiful tall grasses. The 'bee-corridor 'or 'highway' created last year was stunning. This year, whilst not as strikingly colourful, it looks more natural. The new trees that have appeared, thanks to the Bangladeshi community, are already giving much pleasure. The walled garden is equally superb. It has been lovingly cultivated, designed and tended by community volunteers and gardeners and provides a real haven of peace and tranquility. I go there several times a week and there is always something new to see. I love the the soft swathes of colour that have been created with verbena, crocosmia, golden rod etc and the spring flower bed was wonderful. The only reason I haven't given 5 stars is the condition of the pond up by the Dollis Hill House footprint. I am very concerned about the wild-life in there. It is being suffocated by what I think is duck weed and very sadly is full of litter including many plastic bottles which is sadly a reflection on the behaviour of some park users. However, it is such a a shame that this is the only thing to mar my overall huge appreciation of the effort that have been and are being made to continuously improve the experience of visiting...

Surprisingly nice and interesting place, wasn't expecting much due to the general area its in but was very surprised.

Its got a bit of everything and is massive with wild meadows lots of trees a ruined house and a bit of a pond, theres a cafe with a nice garden that used to be part of the now ruined house.

Its like a little exploring place, nothing big and fancy just little things of interest dotted around a park that feels very rural, if you walk to the top of dolis hill the views are amazing and theres even a train line running through the middle of the park, its isolated from the rest of the train network now, but its still used to move goods from a aggregate supplier I think it is a few times a week, theres still an old fashioned signal box on the line, a small bridge over the line at one end of the park and a iron and wooden walkway with steps over it at the other end, the whole place retains a very Victorian feel to it.

Theres a good sized playground for the kids too in the middle of the park and a much smaller one for younger kids at one side, although there are two cafes your better off bringing your own food and drink as theres not much in tne surrounding area its mainly residential, I didn't go in the cafes as park cafes tend to be expensive so I don't know what they are like.

I didn't notice any serious dog poop issues but then its such a big park its going to be very spread out, my only complaint is the fencing, theres a lot of seemingly random long, very long fences around the top of the hill, I'm not sure why maybe to stop people sledding down the hill in winter, but they take so long to walk around once you get stuck on the wrong side of one its annoying, I ended up just climbing over them.

Very nice park reminds...

Fabulous large park, great for dog walking. The park also takes part in 'Park Run' at the weekends. The 'lower park' has a large grass area for football, rugby, cricket or just relaxing. Good pathways for kiddies on bikes or skates. There are also, four fenced courts, for basketball / five a side football / tennis /basketball / roller-skating etc. There is also a small cafe, alongside an excellent (free) 'exercise / keep fit' area, with lots of equipment to use. Adjacent to this area, is a children's 'gated' park, which includes, swings, slides, climbing frame and seesaw. The 'upper' / 'higher' area of the park has a long, tree-lined, wide path, another 'gated' children's park, a duck pond ( please don't feed the birds), all close to where British Statesman, William Gladstone, onced lived. Close to Gladstone's memorial, is a 'walled garden' and a small cafe, which now occupies the old stables. This area of the park is particularly lovely for picnics (barbecues and fires not allowed). There are also four professional tennis courts on the northside of Gladstone Park. The whole park is extremely clean and very well maintained (please help by putting all personal rubbish in the bins provides). It's October now and the trees have started to turn gold against the crisp blue sky, throwing long shadows across the land, as the sun starts to settle in the west. Autumn is very beautiful in Gladstone...