Parks and Countryside

Parks And Countryside

Visitors to Huntingdonshire parks will be treated to a wide variety within the towns with walks, play and wheels areas, boating facilities, sports pitches and ancient woodlands.

Ancient Woodlands
Boating
Crazy Golf/Pitch and Putt
Cycling Tracks
Dog Walking Areas
Eating Establishments
Fairs and Regattas & Other Events
Fishing
Orienteering
Parking Facilities
Picnic areas
Picturesque & Photographic views
Play areas
Pleasurable Riverside Walks
Sports pitches
Toilet Facilities
Wheels activity areas
Wildlife areas

They include Riverside Park and Priory Park in St. Neots, together with Riverside Park and Sapley Park in Huntingdon. A more recent addition is Hill Rise Park in St. Ives.

There are also many skate parks in the Huntingdonshire area. All the parks are free and are open to all. The parks are not supervised and the use of them is at your own risk.

Our parks are used by the public for recreation but are also used for fairs, carnivals and regattas in the summer. Our riverside venues also host band concerts throughout the year.

Huntingdonshire Countryside Services, run by Rangers from Huntingdonshire District Council, looks after some of the wonderful countryside within our District. With nature reserves and country parks, lots of open land and many, many events we are sure you will find somewhere to visit and something to do.

We are lucky in Huntingdonshire to have the Great Ouse running through, followed by the Ouse Valley Way footpath, another of the sites cared for by the Rangers. All of the Countryside Services sites, from Paxton Pits Nature Reserve to Holt Island, are either found along the route or only a short detour from it.

Latest News for Parks and Countryside

Plum Pruning Workshop (26/06/09)

A free pruning workshop will be held on 4 July 2009, near Colne, for owners of plum orchards, concentrating on restorative pruning to bring neglected trees back into production.

BBC Teams With Local Councils To Create Community Breathing Places Across The Uk (02/06/09)

Huntingdonshire District Council is one of fifty local councils across the UK who has joined forces with the BBC Breathing Places campaign to turn their communities into breathing places. In the next 12 months each council has committed to make space for nature and create wildlife friendly communities in urban and rural locations.

New Childrens Play Area Priory Park St Neots Now Open (29/05/09)

Local residents young and old celebrated the official opening of a new natural play area in Priory Park, St Neots this week (Wednesday 27 May). The new play area has been built thanks to the help of local children and pupils at The Roundhouse School, St Neots and was officially opened by Mrs Christine Tuff, the head teacher.

Reed Rustler Has Been Launched (07/05/09)

On Tuesday 28 April, the countryside team at Huntingdonshire District Council launched a new boat on the sailing lake at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, where volunteers carried out a big litter-pick under the willows around the edge of the Lake.