Popular community park offering a swimming pool, playground, nature trails & open green space.
A lovely park with a play area and a paddling pool. Perfect if you have younger children, mine are 8 and 4 and they love coming here
Beautiful park. Very big , lots of open spaces. Football ground children's play area children's paddling pool, children swings and slides. Large picnic area toilets very beautiful park. Great place to take the key date for the day. Easy to find. Just off the A14 at worsted
Bourne Park is a very extensive grassy space with many mature deciduous trees, growing throughout. It's suited to dog walkers, joggers, nature lovers, & those who wish to enjoy a breathtaking, panoramic view of the Orwell Estuary from its highest point. This is probably the best spot to be sited on the outskirts of Ipswich, if you want to witness the daily sunrise over the Orwell Bridge. A large children's only play area is fenced off from the main path at the eastern corner of the flat field section, keeping the new facility dog free. The older play area is still accessible, on the other side of the hill, closeby Bourne Park Car Park. Also nearby the car parking space is the Public Footpath access into Bourne Park Reedbeds. For such a big park it's quite pathetic that the local authority has closed the on-site public toilet block as part of its cost cutting policy. Bourne Park has several different narrow access spots for walkers, but none of them are obvious as such from outside. So unless you know it's there, it's a beautiful facility quite easily bypassed without even knowing about Bourne Park's existence. Another easily missed feature here is the memorial to local industrialist, philanthropist, Quaker & Labour MP, Sir Richard Rapier. The stone monolith bearing the brass plaque in his honour, is located near the main gate aside the Wherstead Road entrance. (It was formerly sited at the main works of the Ransomes & Rapier foundry, but was relocated when the dockside factory closed).
Great large park with play area and brook. Sadly the paddling pool is only for young children
Great play area and abundant space for outdoor activities and dog exercise. The paddling pool is an underrated gem. Parking could be improved.
Huge park with a little woodland walk, wide open field and lovely clean play areas with what looks like a nice size paddling pool in the summer. Perfect for all the family and doggos
On-site services
Wheelchair-accessible car park
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Hiking
Picnic tables
Public toilet
Slides
Swings
Good for kids
Kid-friendly hikes
Playground
Dogs allowed
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A lovely park with a play area and a paddling pool. Perfect if you have younger children, mine are 8 and 4 and they love coming here
Beautiful park. Very big , lots of open spaces. Football ground children's play area children's paddling pool, children swings and slides. Large picnic area toilets very beautiful park. Great place to take the key date for the day. Easy to find. Just off the A14 at worsted
Bourne Park is a very extensive grassy space with many mature deciduous trees, growing throughout. It's suited to dog walkers, joggers, nature lovers, & those who wish to enjoy a breathtaking, panoramic view of the Orwell Estuary from its highest point. This is probably the best spot to be sited on the outskirts of Ipswich, if you want to witness the daily sunrise over the Orwell Bridge. A large children's only play area is fenced off from the main path at the eastern corner of the flat field section, keeping the new facility dog free. The older play area is still accessible, on the other side of the hill, closeby Bourne Park Car Park. Also nearby the car parking space is the Public Footpath access into Bourne Park Reedbeds. For such a big park it's quite pathetic that the local authority has closed the on-site public toilet block as part of its cost cutting policy. Bourne Park has several different narrow access spots for walkers, but none of them are obvious as such from outside. So unless you know it's there, it's a beautiful facility quite easily bypassed without even knowing about Bourne Park's existence. Another easily missed feature here is the memorial to local industrialist, philanthropist, Quaker & Labour MP, Sir Richard Rapier. The stone monolith bearing the brass plaque in his honour, is located near the main gate aside the Wherstead Road entrance. (It was formerly sited at the main works of the Ransomes & Rapier foundry, but was relocated when the dockside factory closed).
Great large park with play area and brook. Sadly the paddling pool is only for young children
Great play area and abundant space for outdoor activities and dog exercise. The paddling pool is an underrated gem. Parking could be improved.
Huge park with a little woodland walk, wide open field and lovely clean play areas with what looks like a nice size paddling pool in the summer. Perfect for all the family and doggos
