Sports, parks, and recreation

Sports and recreation facilities

There are sports facilities at Cantley Park, located just outside the North Wokingham major development.

New developments contributed financially to an upgrade of the existing pitches and facilities at Cantley Park, additional tennis courts, a café and an interactive playground with equipment for all ages including wheelchair accessible kit.

Parks and open space

As part of the new development, there are several new recreational open spaces for residents to enjoy the natural environment. These include parks and gardens, public open spaces, children’s play areas, playing pitches, allotments and nature parks.

Nature parks are designed to attract walkers as an alternative to the Thames Basin Heath Special Protection Area, which supports several rare ground nesting birds and is highly sensitive to visitors. As well as being accessible to all residents, they serve as havens for local wildlife.

The North Wokingham community is served by four new nature parks: Old Forest Meadows, Ashridge Meadows, Kentwood Meadows and Keephatch Meadows.

These will be followed by a 4.5-hectare nature park at Ashridge Farm, which will have 2 ponds with a total area of about 1,500 sq m. This will bring the total amount of new green space to more than 35 hectares.

Matthewsgreen has several children’s play areas which are now open while the Keephatch Beech development has an allotment site. A second set of allotments has opened at Twyford for use by North Wokingham residents.