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Eldred Drive Playground, Eldred Drive, Orpington BR5

A small Children’s play area with equipment.

Fordcroft Open Space, Poverest Road, St Mary Cray BR5

This small local open space has entrances in Marion Crescent and Poverest Road.

Frankswood Amenity Green, Junction of Frankswood Avenue and Lakeswood Road, Petts Wood BR5

This small amenity area is mostly grass with a few trees.

Grassmead Recreation Ground, Dyke Drive, Orpington BR5

This medium-sized recreation ground has a children’s play area with equipment.
The main entrance is in Dyke Drive with two other entrances in Brow Crescent and Stanton Close.

Gumping Common, Romany Rise, Crofton, Orpington BR5

Gumping Common supports broad-leaved woodland, with a hawthorn and elder under-storey with occasional hazel and holly. The Kydbrook, flows north east in a deeply incised channel. forming the western boundary.

Hoblingwell Wood Recreation Ground, Leesons Way, St Paul’s Cray BR5

Large, undulating grassed open space with traditional sports facilities.
The main entrance is off Leesons Way with another entrance off Chipperfield Road/Chorley Crescent.

Facilities:
● Basketball post
● Car park
● Children’s play area with equipment
● Junior and senior football pitches
● Kick about area
● Mini soccer pitches
● Rugby pitches

Oakmore Gardens, Blacksmiths Lane, St Mary Cray BR5

This is a medium-sized, grassed local open space. There are entrances in Oakmore Gardens and Blacksmiths Lane.

Petts Wood Recreation Ground, Eynsford Close, Petts Wood BR5

A large, flat recreation ground backing on to Crofton Heath. The entrance to this recreation ground is in Eynsford Close.

Facilities:
● Car park
● Children’s play are with equipment
● Senior football pitches

Ramsden Play Area, Wichling Close, Ramsden Estate, Orpington BR5

This small local area consists of a fenced children’s playground with equipment.

Riverside Gardens Open Space, Gardiner Close, Sevenoaks Way, Orpington BR5

A linear park running from Orpington to St Mary Cray. There are entrances to this site in Sevenoaks Way.

Facilities:
● Boating pond
● Paddling pool (open daily during school summer holidays)

Robin Hood Green, Oakdene Road, Orpington BR5

A small, green local open space.

Sandway Park, Sandway Road, St Mary Cray BR5

A medium-sized, linear park adjacent to the railway line, constructed in the 1980s, now boasting some mature trees.

Facilities:
● Children’s play area with equipment
● Five-a-side football goal posts
● Teenage shelter

Sparrow Wood & Crofton Heath, Farrington Avenue, Bromley BR5

A large conservation wooded area and common.
St Mary Cray Recreation Ground, Park Road, St Mary Cray BR5The main entrance to this large, flat, grassed site is in Park Road, of St Mary Cray High Street. There is another entrance in Crowhurst Way.

Facilities:
● Car park
● Children’s play area with equipment

St Paul’s Cray Hill Country Park, Star Lane, St Paul’s Cray BR5

The London Borough of Bromley, in partnership with Woodland Environmental Ltd, has embarked on a major improvement scheme within St Paul’s Cray Hill Country Park in the east of the borough.

The landscape within the park is being re-designed to include mounds and hills, new trees and shrubs, wild flower and grassland meadows, woodland copses, picnic areas, an extensive path network and a viewing point. A diversity of wildlife habitats will be created and potholes, rocks and existing hazards will be removed with bench seating, litter bins, gates and signage all being added.

If you have any questions or comments on the improvements at St Paul’s Cray Hill Park please telephone 020 8461 7864 or email leisure.culture@bromley.gov.uk.

St Paul’s Cray Recreation Ground, Main Road, St Paul’s Cray BR5

This medium-sized grassed area surrounded by woods has a children’s play area with equipment. There are entrances in Main Road and New Mill Road.

Tillingbourne Green Open Space, Tillingbourne Green, Orpington BR5

This large open and sloping space has a children’s play area with equipment.

Walsingham Linear Open Space, Chipperfield Road, St Paul’s Cray BR5

A small, local open space with it’s main entrance in Chipperfield Road with others in Mickleham Road and Midfield Way.

Facilities:
● Basketball practice area

Watermeadows Open Space, Main Road, St Paul’s Cray BR5

A linear, landscaped area adjacent to the River Cray.

Willet Recreation Ground, Petts Wood, Orpington BR5

A medium-sized recreation ground with many sporting activities. The main entrance to this site is in Crossway with another in Towncourt Crescent.

Facilities:
● Bowling green
● Car park
● Children’s play area with equipment
● Cricket
● Pavilion (used by club who pay to use cricket pitch)
● Toilets (situated at the rear of the pavilion)