Priory Park — Attraction in Malvern Hills

It's a lovely place to go and sit and just chill out you have the back entrance to the theatre with a bar and chairs out on the terrace there's lots of large grass areas for kids to play and have a picnic has a lovely traditional bandstand that is quite often used if you go down through the bottom of the park there are some large sheltered areas with benches to set and just watch the ducks and other wildlife in the large pond the top pond and the bottom pond have got lots of very large koi fish the ducks and more than happy to come and be fed if you check out with the Malvern Town Council or the library or the visitors centre you can find out when May Day events are being held along with lots of other different types of music events quite often during the summer you will find some people up there with their ice cream bicycle there's plenty of parking around the area and if you want to make a good fun day for the kids at the bottom of the park is the splash swimming pool with slides and kids play area wave machine sauna gym steam room all in all it's a very nice area with some very old trees and one exceptionally old tree that when it unfortunately died there was enough of the good trunk left that there is been a giant carving done into it around about 20 foot tall there's also a closed off children's play park and if you want to get away from some of the hustle and bustle of the park there is a large hidden garden it's just a nice quiet area to sit and relax there's a spring water stream that runs down through the park to the main pond at the bottom it's a really nice place just spend a summer's day and if you get adventurous you can walk up into the town centre to the spring water fountain and get fresh water from the ground to drink and then you can carry on from there to the 99 steps that will lead you up on to the Hills and you can walk up and around the hills there's lots of pubs cafes and restaurants there are open day and evening all within walking...

My wife and I used to like walking through this park and enjoyed the brass bands on a Sunday in the summer. A couple of years back, the pool was dredged, and a new play area was put in for children. I won't even walk through the park now. On a couple of occasions, I ve seen birds stuck in the metal netting they put in the pool. Even though there are signs saying no cycling, skateboarding, or ball games, illiterate families are doing the opposite. The kids' area has been greatly enlarged, and now, on a Sunday, the live music can be heard from half a mile away. I ve even seen people climb over the fence around the pool to retreave balls from the pool and gone past nesting birds. I dread to think of what the birds have to put up with on a Sunday. I can't hear the TV in my own home, a five minute walk from the park. What a degeneration. We used to take our own kids and grandkids there....

Priory Park has definitely benefited from the refurb. Little kids area and bigger kids area is a great idea. Really nice to have so much more variety now and kids really made the most of being here. We came with our 9 and 12 year old and they enjoyed the Easter egg trail and the treats at the end. Really well organised and fun for all the kids to get stuck in. Bring wellies for the big kids area if it's been raining as its muddy. The little kids area is not on grass more that foam stuff or bark. Nice to see ice cream stalls and of course access to the theatre bistro and coffee shop is handy too. Parking is right...