Socially Distanced Early Evening Walk: Heaton Park
Overview
Today we are taking a nice easy walk around Heaton Park a 600 acre Municipal Park in Prestwich.
The park contains an 18-hole golf course, a boating lake, an animal farm, a pitch and putt course, a golf driving range, woodlands, ornamental gardens, an observatory, an adventure playground, a Papal monument and a volunteer-run tram system and museum, and is listed Grade II by Historic England. It has the only truly flat green bowling greens in Manchester, built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Location & Itinerary
This is a relatively easy socially distanced walk of approximately 3 1/2 miles
We are meeting outside the Woodthorpe Pub (currently closed)
The Woodthorpe Pub is now open as is their car park