Beddington Park Reviews Summary

Park Environment

Pros:

• "Big Open Spaces, large lake, wonderful trees, a playground for children, cafe, toilets and alongside is St Mary's the virgin church."
• "This is a lovely large park for all of the family & dogs alike."
• "Good park, can walk all around on mostly flat well surfaced paths."
• "Popular park close to Croydon. Lovely walks with lakes and river wandle running through."
• "Beautiful wide open space with so much to do stream with fish and lots more."
• "By Far The Most Beautiful maintained park offering a Playground area, Cafe, Grange Restraunt/Bar, BBQ areas, Outside Gym Equipment, Tennis courts, and a Cricket Pavillion."
• "This is a beautiful park with so many different types of trees and colourful flower beds."

Cons:

• "Also becomes horrendously busy in the summer as people swarm around the River Wandle - sadly leaving mounds of litter & picnic waste."
• "I don't know what they are doing to the park at the moment, there are areas blocked off and the pond is in an unhealthy state for the birds."
• "Since they employed security to enforce the policies in the park it has really gone downhill."
• "BEWARE PIECES OF GLASS FOUND & SEEN IN THE STREAM (PLAYGROUND SIDE)."
• "But left for our own safety."
• "BE AWARE thieves & vandals operate in this area."
• "The facilities are a bit sparse and there is lots of litter in areas after the weekend which is sad to see."

Cafe and Food

Pros:

• "Good children's playground and pleasant cafe."
• "The tea and cakes were lovely."
• "A lovely cafe with a wide selection of food and drinks."
• "Pavilion has tasty snacks and toilets and at the opposite end of the park there is a lovely manicured garden near the restaurant that has waterfalls and beautiful flowers."
• "The Grange does fantastic food at reasonable prices and is also a great pub to have a drink either in the garden or inside."
• "Great cafe with reasonable prices."
• "The Grange is a very nice place to have a meal and a drink after those walks."

Cons:

• "The cafe is pretty high in price for what it is but it is in a good location."
• "The cafe has to sort it self out, poor service."
• "Unfortunately the cafe there is shut. After a lovely walk a nice cuppa and cake would do good. Please open soon."
• "You can have a hot meal here although I find them a little expensive."
• "Can get very crowded at weekend and cafe is badly run, slow and long wait."
• "been here last night 17th December for our X'mas do. Serving of food was so awful."
• "I wish there was enough arrangement for trash collection on busy weekends. I saw all bins were flooded and trash everywhere."

Facilities and Activities

Pros:

• "Great park to walk around and to take kids to play in the kid's park. A whole range of equipment for different aged kids as well as acoustic equipment that can be used."
• "Has a cafe and nice play area for kids."
• "Even the water bodies around the park have very beautiful birds all around."
• "A huge climbing area, both my children loved all of it."
• "It has a playground, a stream, and a beautiful pond with swans and ducks."
• "Great park for seeing birds."
• "An amazing park with pretty much everything you could need! Kids play area, parking, ponds, streams, football pitches, basketball courts, tennis courts."

Cons:

• "All good, calm, clean, but very upsetting the council did forbid all BBQ."
• "Toilets at the park are ok, not functional quite a lot of time. Disabled toilet is locked mostly."
• "No toilets."
• "The only negative is that on the tubular silvery slide has a large gap between two floor levels just before it which a child could easily fall through, it's quite high so this is quite concerning."
• "Worst experience ever had a guy from sutton council harass and scare our disabled children."
• "Only giving it a 4 instead of a 5 as it has toilets but they are never open which is annoying to say the least."
• "Only bad point is that it could be mentained a little bit better."

Parking and Accessibility

Pros:

• "Park ground is clean, accessible to near bins."
• "Plenty of parking space available at both the entrances."
• "On a busy day parking can be limited but still accessible."
• "Easy free parking and a cafe with loos."
• "There are lots of carparks and one secret one that is free."
• "Love it, so does the kids and dogs. Lots of green space, benches to sit down while kids and dogs run around."
• "The park is wheel chair accessible and has accessible/usable activities."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately the cafe there is shut. After a lovely walk a nice cuppa and cake would do good. Please open soon."
• "Ps toilets in cafe were closed when got there 4.30pm circa."
• "Parking can be a problem at busy times."
• "It's a bit of a faff getting the car to the car park in the middle because the road in is very narrow."
• "Parking is available, however, on a nice day, parking can be tricky to find."
• "Parking can be tricky at weekends but especially on sunny days during summer holidays."
• "But parking can be a bit of a nightmare."