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  Bromsgrove District Council

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  Sarah Breen

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  01527881611 
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Information about this open space

Sanders Park is Bromsgrove’s Premier Park which attracts over 250,000 visitors per year. The park, located close to the town centre of Bromsgrove, was opened in 1968 and covers 16.3 hectares to the west of Bromsgrove linking to countryside beyond. The area of Sanders Park and the small valley of the Battlefield Brook has for centuries been an important green space for the town. In the area of the park by Watt Close there used to be an Elizabethan water mill powered by the Battlefield Brook. This was converted in the late eighteenth century to one of the first cotton spinning factories in England. It is thought that there are references to the landscape of Battlefield Brook Valley and what is now Sanders Park in the poems of the renowned poet and scholar A.E.Housman. Bromsgrove District Council manages the park to meet the modern day needs of the local community. The park offers a wide range of facilities for informal and formal recreation as well as a varied events programme throughout the year. These facilities include a flat outdoor bowling green, two tennis courts, putting green, outdoor skate park, basketball courts and a state of the art children’s play area. The park is also a popular venue for a range of events and activities delivered by Bromsgrove District Council and it’s partners.