Priory Park Reviews Summary

Park Facilities

Pros:

• "A beautiful historic park for the whole family to go and have fun."
• "Large areas for playing or picnics, pathways guiding you round which are fine for wheelchairs to navigate, and seating to watch the world go by, there is something for everyone."
• "Visited the park for one of the regular summer weekend band concerts."
• "Superb, probably the best in the area and has got everything in it for the kids and for the grown ups."
• "Play area for kids, and a band stand, plus recreational areas."
• "Great park huge wide open spaces, tennis courts, outdoor gym equipment, kids playground and a lovely café."
• "It has everything, a large green space, a playground, tennis court, table tennis tables, cafe, toilets, museum and lots more."

Cons:

• "I am steering clear of the children's playground however after seeing several rats coming up from the stream scavenging for food whilst visiting during the summer."
• "Pity the café doesn't have a hatch so a dog owner can get an ice cream or a cuppa."
• "Unfortunately buildings shut week days in winter so you need rely on signs setting out the history."
• "Grass needs to be cut. Standards are going down hill rapidly."
• "Could do with a little more maintenance in some parts."
• "In need of a major make over."
• "The kids play area does need a good clean as well especially the toddler area it was filthy."

Accessibility & Maintenance

Pros:

• "The park is mostly very accessible for wheelchair users with good paths that are easy to negotiate."
• "All very well maintained."
• "The grounds people do such a fantastic job and obviously take pride in their work."
• "Most of it is wheelchair accessible."
• "Very clean and tidy."
• "Well kept park and gardens with beautiful old walled garden."
• "Beautiful well kept gardens throughout."

Cons:

• "The only part of the park that is not fully accessible is parts of the walled garden, but you can still access the garden."
• "The cloister (walled garden) still very pretty shame ponds and water features no longer have fish or work."
• "Though the small fish ponds could do with a clean."
• "Maybe more notices about litter and dog waste collection by owners together with more dog waste bins... very unpleasant experience especially with young children- huge health hazard!"
• "We love coming to this park as it is the best for miles around but recently we are very disappointed with the condition of the ponds/fountains."
• "Unfortunately there's quite a bit of rubbish in the stream & empty alcohol cans & bottles left in certain areas of this park on a regular basis."
• "Only negative point was there was a fair bit of litter in the children's play area presumably from the night before?"

Cafe & Amenities

Pros:

• "Cafe serving good choice of food and drinks."
• "It also has a cafe which serves sandwiches, chips and a few authentic Korean dishes which are really nice."
• "The nice little cafe offered Korean food alongside normal English cafe food."
• "Lovely place to sit and think, also has a very nice cafe."
• "Everyone is so friendly and they make the best kimchi in house."
• "The cafe is a must visit place! It looks like a typical cheap cafe but the Korean owners make the most delicious, healthy large portion meals ever!"
• "Lovely tea and food cafe."

Cons:

• "The cafe isn't the cheapest!?"
• "The cafe is still dire and they only take cash."
• "Little cafe not as nice as it used to be only takes cash which is a bit of a nuisance."
• "Very disappointed with cafe at park. CASH ONLY what's that all about."
• "Very tired looking cafe."
• "Make sure you take cash though as no facilities for card payments."
• "The cafe was a huge disappointment."

Parking & Accessibility

Pros:

• "Easily accessible and has cycle paths which are fed in from cycle networks."
• "Free parking with a cafe, toilets and the free-to-enter Priory (reopening in May)."
• "Free parking always a bonus. Kids playground clean and tidy."
• "There is a car park with free parking."
• "Parking available for free."
• "Good for parking too."
• "Very large park. Table tennis, tennis, basket ball. Cafe, plenty of room for kids to play. Picnic tables. Free parking."

Cons:

• "Only downside is due to popularity it can be difficult to park."
• "Does get quite busy so it's difficult to park at peak times."
• "The car park could be a bit bigger."
• "Parking can be limited so get there early."
• "Nice park limited parking."
• "The park is spoilt slightly by totally inadequate car parking spaces."