Bulwell
Hall
Park
is just five or six minutes drive from Rise
Park. This park and Local Nature Reserve incorporates a
childrens' play area, beautiful walks through ancient woodlands, and
contains two ponds, which are home to many aquatic plants and a regular
breeding site for mute swans, moorhens and coots (vandals permitting).
Local residents fish the ponds regularly.
Pathways can be rather muddy in parts after wet weather.
The park is also the home of Nottingham City Golf Club – 18 holes –
and it is believed that the City Council proposes to work with club to
upgrade the course and to provide modern high-quality leisure facilities
at the heart of the park. (It is hoped that this will not be done to the
detriment of the members of the general public, as has happened at Bulwell
Common, and that the City Council will now give similar attention to the
general public areas - which have been very seriously neglected in recent
years
(There is some
evidence of improvements being commenced as at the beginning of 2008 - but
time will tell!).
Vehicle access is via gates at the top of
Sandhurst Road
and there is no admission charge.
Parking inside the gates, (overlooking
what was the cricket field, until vandalism destroyed the pavilion
recently) or continue straight on to park by the clubhouse. All parking is
free (Jan
2008)