Abingdon Green Spaces

Albert Park

Albert memorial Conduit house Path flanked by trees Bowling event Bench overlooking open area of park

Access

The park is close to the centre of the town with Park Road running along the south side of the park and Park Crescent running around the other three sides. Both roads are private gated roads with no parking. There are a number of access point around the park.

Connectivity

It is a short walk from Stratton way along Park Road, from Ock Street along Conduit Road and Victoria Road, and from Faringdon Road along a spur of Park Crescent.

Two of our Healthy Abingdon Circular Walks skirt the park:

Map of park

The park

The park was founded in the 1860s by Christ's Hospital of Abingdon who still own and run the park. You can find more on the history here.

The park is approximately 300 by 200m and has trees and shrubs rather than flower beds along with lawn areas. Many of the trees a very old and beautiful. It is laid out with shady, tree-lined paths around the edge and and a large open play area in the in the middle. There are many benches around the park for you to relax and these can be found on our benches page.


Excellent sign with map and information on the park	Shady path

Many varieties of trees and shubs	Open area

Bench to overlook the open area	Memorial to long-time gardener.

Interesting features

The park is dominated by a statue of Prince Albert on a 15m high column. The statue was completed in 1865.

There is a curious small hexagonal building at the south-east corner of the site. This is Conduit House and was built over a natural spring and the water conveyed to Ock Street by a conduit running along what is now called Conduit Road. The water was for the people of Ock street at a time when other water was unfit to drink. It is not known when the Conduit House was built but it was certainly before 1550 and was in use until 1875.

The Abingdon Bowling Club is based in the park and was set up in 1913.

The Abingdon Lawn Tennis Club had courts in the park from 1914 before moving to their current location in South Abingdon in the 1980s.


Prince Albert memorial	Abingdon Bowling Club

Conduit House	Sign on Conduit house