Mayfield Park
Mayfield Park provides 17 hectares of varied landscape and historical features in the south east of Southampton. The park includes formal gardens, sports grounds, bowling green, and large recreation areas, woodland walks, a play area and grade II listed buildings. The old council nursery where the plants for Southampton’s parks used to be grown is now used by the charity MIND Solent, originally to provide Horticultural Therapy, but now more as a commercial nursery retail outlet and café.
The park, which opened in 1938, was formerly the grounds of Mayfield House built for Robert Wright in 1854 and demolished in 1956. Sited near the playing fields is the Obelisk, commemorating Charles Fox the radical politician which serves as a local landmark. Shoreburs Greenway follows the early nineteenth century carriageway which linked Weston Grove House to Portsmouth Road.
Location
Wrights Hill or Weston Lane, SO19 9HL
Facilities
- Play area
- Bowling green
- Formal ornamental gardens
- Historic interest
- Access to nature
- Playing fields (which can be booked through our outdoor recreation partners)
- Mature woodland.
- Main car park off of Weston Lane
- A few restricted parking spaces via the main stone gate entrance by the bowling green including disabled parking spaces
- Toilets
Accessibility
Some surfaced paths with level access. Many grass paths which might be seasonally wet and muddy, with some steep inclines.
Friends group
None currently. Want to start a friends group?
Management plan
Yes, view the Mayfield Park management plan.
