dallington park

facilities good

Dallington Park can be reached by travelling in a westerly direction from the town centre along the Harlestone Road.
This area of 23 acres was gifted to the Corporation by Messrs C.E. and T.D. Lewis in 1921. It is a very pleasant open space with large trees, shrubberies and an attractive flowerbed on the corner of Harlestone Road and Dallington Park road.
Facilities at the park include: —
4 Senior Football Pitches
4 Changing Rooms and
3 Grass Cricket Pitches
It is likely that this park once provided the Dallington area with grazing for cattle because there is evidence of a Ha-​Ha wall on the northeastern side forming the boundary shared by the former Dallington Hospital.
As this hospital was once a large residential house with an ornamental garden, it is reasonable to assume this Ha-​Ha was constructed to keep grazing animals out of the gardens. The wall, of course, no longer serves any real purpose but it has been retained for general interest