Buile Hill Park — Attraction in Salford

This is a large suburban park with several different areas spread across a rolling hillside. The park has 2 main car parks and there is an unofficial parking area near the main entrance.

Normally a relatively quiet park it has the disadvantage of being a through route for high school kids who can be very noisy at times.

As well as a play area for younger children there are large open fields which are often used by locals to play sports and a tennis court area which is in need of refurbishments and a former small golf course which thanks to being fully enclosed and having at least three gated entrances has become a fun place to allow dogs off the lead so they can run and socialise with other dogs. There is a strong community spirit amongst most of the dog owners who use this part of the park and the dogs are usually well behaved and well controlled. Dog owners there are usually more than happy to join up in groups and meet at certain times of the day so their pets can become as good friends as the owners.

The park is regularly serviced by at least 1 icecream van, with reasonable quality produce and the prices are average.

Surrounded on most side by fencing there is unfortunately a long stretch alongside a major road which has no fencing and thus care has to be taken with young children and dogs who are off their lead.

The park regularly hosts a travelling fair as well as a large bonfire on November the 5th.

The park does not have organised pitches for football or cricket although you can often see groups of friends playing both these sports in summer.

There are no toilets and no cafe although Salford Council has a venue hall which can be booked for wedding...

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Decades of Salford Council negligence and the rise of home deliveries has meant this rich man's garden (which at least used to have a mining museum with a mock mineshaft) is now a shadowy relic of its once grand former self.

Countless (198) trees, plenty of green grass, you are pretty much guaranteed solitude here because it's such a cultural and horticultural sick bin, nobody who isn't a dog wants to come near.

There are of course no toilets in the park, so feel free to urinate and defecate behind the bushes. That's if you need to, the nearest shop is half a mile away, so you're more likely to starve than you are to need a poop.

God bless parks though,...