Colden Common Parish Council Colden Common Park

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Colden Common Park, Boyes Lane

Picnic area with pitches beyond

New Pavillion built with the

help of lottery funding

Children's equipped playground

17 acres of grounds with:

3 football pitches.
a cricket square.
a 6-rink bowling green equipped with automatic irrigation.
	Modern Pavillion with 4 changing rooms and a club room with a veranda to the bowling green. All facilities accessible to the disabled.
Trim trail, picnic area and secure childrens playground.
Hazel Copse woodland conserved by the Woodpeckers Environmental Group.
Car Parking.

For booking of all sports pitches, tennis courts and changing facilities:

Recreation Bookings Clerk Vanessa Kitt 01962 713741

The council bought 17 acres of farmland on the eastern edge of the village in 1996. The purchase led to a £400,000 sport and leisure facility for the local populaton of 3,000 people.

Over the next year, the land was turned into playing fields, through strenuous efforts by volunteers. The site was given the name "Colden Common Park" and opened in April 1997. The park was officially opened at a ceremony on 25th April 1999.

Encouraged by the Sports Council, Colden Common Parish Council applied for a Lottery grant and, at the end of 1997, was awarded over £260,000 towards a pavilion and bowls green. A further £26,000 grant, for terracing and fencing of the bowls green, was made. Construction of the red brick building with pantile roof began in 1998, and was finished in six months.

Colden Common Park would not have been possible without considerable voluntary effort. The parish council is also grateful for donations from Hampshire Playing Fields Association, the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Finch's Trust, Winchester City Council, Hampshire County Council, the Civic Trust and the Forestry Commission, as well as many other individuals and organisations.

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