Cotteridge Park

Limited bowls but homemade food. Place mats slightly wrinkled. Duck meat mixed with vegetarian option, however informed that those particular ducks were arseholes. Waitress tore apart food with her fingers for us. Spoons partly insufficient. Had to collect own cutlery like a little chef.

I discovered this just today by accident, by taking a wrong turning. What a nice surprise! I’ve always thought that Birmingham is well stocked with good public parks, and it seems that there are even more that I had no idea about.
Cotteridge Park is really quiet for an urban park. Considering the fact that it’s close to the Pershore Road, there is little by way of traffic noise. It’s a great park: really spacious, with tree-​lined paths, a car park, a kids’ play area, some big open spaces, a skate ramp and some tennis and a basketball court! Who knew?!
The only noise that I could hear (other than kids on their way home from school) was the bells from the carillon in Bournville. How very quaint and pleasant :) A train did rattle by while I was there, but other than that it was relative peace and quiet. ‘Relative’ due to the fact that it was home time from school so there were plenty of kids running around. Which is good. That is what parks are for. I’ve decided that I now want to live on Franklin Road (the road that backs onto the park)…

Cotteridge Park is a spacious with wide vast amounts of field which is great to walk dogs and hang around with large groups of friends on a hot sunny day. They also provide a miniature skating area and an abundant play area that consists of many arenas such as a climbing frame, rock climbing facilities, conventional playground swings and much much more! They have also assembled park like pieces of art such as their wick hut that satisfies both children and people of my age! It is definitely a place to be hanging out in the summer and is easy to gain access to as its location is situated between both train stations, Kings Norton and Bournville. Even for a nice little stroll, the area is very tranquil and peaceful.

While it is Cotteridge park it actually feels more like it is part of Bournville as it is kept to the same high standard as everything under Bournville Village trust.
It’s a large Victorian park and as well as being a nice place to relax or hang around on a sunny day they also have quite a few activities there, check out the website to see if there is anything happening when you want to visit. There is a small skate park and lots of slides and climbing frames for the kids.
I would definitely recommend going along and If do you visit, go and check out the meteorites (actually just glacial boulders but that doesn’t sound as cool).