Outdoor Sports Facilities More information is available at There are several play facilities including the www.southbucks.gov.uk Thames Valley Adventure Playground for (Parks and Open Spaces page) people with disabilities. Visit www.tvap.co.uk There are numerous private and proprietary golf For further information clubs in the area. The South Buckinghamshire contact: 01895 837321 and the Academy Courses are both owned and managed by South Bucks District Council and Or write to: are open to the public . The South Buckinghamshire is a challenging 18 hole Colt/ The Landscape Officer Hawtree course set in 130 acres of attractive Environment Unit and mature wooded parkland. The Academy Council Offices Course offers 9 holes on the edge of Stoke Capswood Poges and a state of the art floodlit driving Oxford Road range with 10 indoor bays and 5 outside. Denham Farnham Park Playing Fields is an attractive Bucks area of 88 acres and provides the opportunity UB9 4LH for numerous sports to be played including football, rugby and cricket and hosts an annual softball competition. Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens are registered as Grade I on English Heritage’s Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in If you need this information in Landscape England. another format such as large print please ask us. The Gardens are managed by South Bucks In South Bucks District Council and include: A C20 funerary landscape (mid 1930s) with a Environment complex and innovative design by a nationally renowned landscape designer and specialist in memorial gardens, Edward White. The design is based on the burial of ashes in small individual gardens, reflecting White’s belief in the British passion for domestic Council Offices, Capswood, horticulture, set around a complex formal Oxford Road, Denham ensemble of canals and pergolas around UB9 4LH Telephone: 01895 837200 lawns. Minicom: 01895 837251 It adjoins Stoke Poges churchyard, subject of www.southbucks.gov.uk the poet Thomas Gray. Landscape in South Bucks District For further information on the park, its South Bucks is particularly rich in great houses, attractions and events call in at the Colne Valley many surviving complete with park and garden, South Bucks has a wealth of parks and Park Visitor Centre in Denham (UB9 5PG), and ancillary buildings such as lodges, stables gardens. It has a rural character and numerous phone 01895 833375 or visit and monuments. The area’s popularity with open spaces, which are especially valuable as www.colnevalleypark.org.uk building patrons was probably due to its they are so close to London and provide proximity to the Capital and the Court, and its attractive outdoor locations for many people to Important Open Spaces in South Bucks Thames-side location, where the riverside is visit. Most of the District is green belt with include: lined with historic houses and landscapes, for twelve registered parks and gardens and example: eleven scheduled ancient monuments. Burnham Beeches Black Park Dropmore by Samuel Wyatt The parks attract thousands of visitors a year Langley Park Nashdom by Edwin Lutyens and include the work of many important and Littleworth Common Cliveden by Sir Charles Barry influential figures in the history of garden Stoke Common Taplow Court by William Burn. design, including Henry Wise, Lancelot Burnham Beeches, owned and managed by the ‘Capability’ Brown, Humphrey Repton, Gertrude The District is equally rich in attractive villages City of London Corporation, is characterised by a Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, Sylvia Crowe, and and hamlets. Denham, Fulmer and Hedgerley diverse mixture of ancient woodland, wood Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe. are traditional villages with a church, a green, a pasture, coppice, ponds and streams, grassland, public house and cottages and is also steeped in The District has several important waterways mire and heathland. It’s most prominent features film history with one of the most important including the River Thames, the Grand Union are the veteran Beech and Oak pollarded trees studios in England’s film history - Pinewood. Canal (Slough Arm), the River Colne and the which provide a stable habitat for many rare and Several of the open spaces in the District have Jubilee River, most with public footpaths endangered deadwood species. featured in well known films such as Harry Potter alongside and areas for wildlife and recreation. The site is classified as Site of Special Scientific (Black Park) and ‘My week with Marilyn’ which Smaller rivers form attractive wildlife areas. Interest (SSSI), a National Nature Reserve has a closing shot of the Blackwood Arms pub at (NNR) and an internationally important Special The Colne Valley Park covers 43 square miles Littleworth Common. Area of Conservation (SAC). approximately 1/3 of which falls in South Bucks There are many areas of woodland and small along with parts of Hertfordshire, London, For further information visit: nature reserves, such as Gerrards Cross Berkshire and Surrey. The string of lakes, www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/ Common and Holtspur Bank Nature Reserve. ponds and rivers through the area provide valuable wetland habitats. The park provides Many of these areas are managed by the recreational features, such as 5 country parks, Stoke Common, also owned and managed by County, District or Parish Councils and others by 8 golf courses, 270km of footpaths & bridleways the City of London Corporation, and Littleworth local community groups. Some of the open and is used for activities associated with open Common contain remnants of spaces have volunteer groups that undertake water, such as angling and canoeing. The Buckinghamshire’s once extensive heathland valuable works. Colne Valley Park has been established to and both sites are designated as SSSI. develop positive use for the green belt for An extensive network of footpaths covers the landscape, wildlife, recreation, farming, district, some being part of long distance education and community involvement. footpaths such as the Beeches Way. .