King Edward Park — Attraction in Nottingham

My favourite local park. It's a great place to sit in the sun and relax, or have a walk around at any time of the year. It has a fenced off playground for young children, a skateboarding area, football pitch, ball courts and outdoor gym equipment. I love the history of it. It used to be the site of the Nottingham Lunatic Asylum which closed in 1901(you can find a remaining wall) and became a public park when King Edward came to the throne, which is where it gets it's name. There are some beautiful trees there that I particularly like. Most importantly my...

There is so little for the children to play on it caused me quite an aggressive time when I accompanied my three Grandchildren on Thursday, whilst having a city break in Notts. I live in Scotland. The local people think it's acceptable to tell my Grandchildren to get off the equipment. I had to go into the bushes to have a wee, as there are no toilets & a local women was making them get off the equipment. We had to leave as the children 8, 6 & 5 was sobbing at her tirade of verbal abuse &...

The skatepark is an interesting use of the limited space/funds I'm assuming the council had. It works well if there's just a few people using it, but if there's more than 5 people skating it it will be come very crowded. It has some interesting features like the ride on slappy curb, Pier 7 style manny pad and the gap over the rail.

I can't help but think how much better it could be even if they just put flat concrete in the center. A well made park though and worth...