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Valentines Park

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Parks Development Team.

Valentines Park has been awarded Green Flag Status for 2010/11, a national standard for parks and open spaces in England and Wales which recognises and rewards the best green spaces in the country.

How to find

Valentines Park on our map
Main entrance on Cranbrook Road, Ilford
Vehicle entrance Melbourne Road, Perth Road and Cranbrook Road

What's on in the park

Running - weekly sessions for Us Girls or weekly 5km timed run for adults and children 8 yrs+
Tennis Coaching - every Saturday for children 10-16 yrs part of Active Young People.
Walking - Organised walks part of Walk to Health or if you prefer a self guided walk in and around the park at your own leisure.
Valentines Mansion and Gardens events and activities all year round!
Oddsocks Production - Julius Caesar on 24 June for more details view the full event entry here.

Facilities

Bandstand
Basketball Court
Cafe by the bandstand
Gardener's Cottage Cafe by the Mansion
Cricket pitch for hire
Bowling Green
Children's Play Area
Football pitch for hire
Lake (Rowing boats for hire)
Play tennis for free
Outdoor gym

Opening times

The park is open from 8am to dusk throughout the year.

For more details of exact closing times please download our Parks Closing Times under related pages or alternatively please check time boards at the entrance of each park.

Parking Charges

From 1 October 2011 the following car parking charges apply:

Up to 1 hour - 70p

1-2 hours - £1.30

All day - £3.00

History of Valentines Park

The park was once the parkland of Valentines Mansion a gentleman’s residence built in 1696. The landscape reflects the changing tastes of the last three hundred years and the main elements surviving today relate to the changes made to the Mansion itself in the 1720s, the 1810s and the 1870s. During all these periods, the house was in private ownership. The greatest change was from 1912 when the whole estate became a public park and began to be used by greater numbers of people than ever before.

The heritage value is of great importance in terms of the survival of formal Rococo features in a suburban park near the Central tube line, the M11 and the main London to Norfolk trunk road.