Langthorne Park — Attraction in London

I've been here before, the first time being the day before 'the rule of 6' was brought in due to the pandemic. The park was full of families making use of the facilities and there was even a kid's birthday party going on. On this visit, with my almost 3yr old, there was barely anyone there. The park itself is beautiful and has a nice atmosphere. There is an under 12s recreation area with a few rides but you can see how it can very quickly become overcrowded. It was open although I got the feeling that perhaps it was supposed to have been locked up (one gate was locked with a padlock). There is a basketball court, a lake and a gym area with equipment. What put me right off and shortened our journey was the shouting, swearing and overall intimidating behaviour of about 3 individuals in a part of the park near the public toilets (closed of course). The way they were going on, I wouldn't have been surprised if I had witnessed some kind of violent incident. It did quiten down, but I got the impression that perhaps the park could be a regular haunt of a gang. I visited at around 1pm not 10pm. Having said all that, I'm sure this is not peculiar to this park and having visited this beautiful place located in the middle of a very built up area, I would still go back, but probably accompanied...

It used to be very much a lot better. We enjoyed the duck pond and all the wildlife in and around it. The only thing that needed to be done was to repair the duck house, which was used loads. Ducklings every year and young pigeons. We enjoyed spotting the fish and terrapins.

Now it is just an overgrown rubbish heap.

VERY disappointed 😞

We are glad that the arena is being used a bit more, plays, films etc.

Can we have some more please 🙏 And restore the duck pond how...

Langthorne was created over 20 years ago as part of redevelopment and regeneration of local area. Initially site of Langthorne skills centre built on old hospital land. It later became the park with more housing and a green space between Cathall and Avenue estates. Over the years there has been a lot of redevelopment around park on old hospital land. They've also reduced all the free...