Allens Field

• Free parking (2m height restriction)
• Bins
• Benches and picnic tables
• Wildflower meadow, woodland and streams to explore
• Read all about it in the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s leaflet
• Dog agility equipment
• Interesting sculptures
• 1.2km circular walk

Where you’ll find it…

Find the free car park off Liddell Way, Ascot, nearest postcode SL5 9UZ. Grid reference SU 91978 67788. What3Words: match.thus.next. It’s open every day from 7:30am till 4pm.

N.B. We’ve given the nearest postcode, but recommend using the links to look up the exact location. The centre of a postcode may be up to half a mile from your destination.

What you’ll find there…

The field has had a chequered history. Once a rubbish tip and before that an allotment. Not the kind where vegetables are grown, but a fuel allotment set aside for the benefit of the poor, somewhere for local people to collect firewood. Now a lovely open space for the Ascot area, with a wildflower meadow and a woodland trail.

And if you were wondering who Allen was? There were two of them! George Allen was Clerk to Windsor Rural District Council, and his wife was Clerk to the Parish Council and the Fuel Allotment Trust, in the 1960s and 70s.

Note: The paths are mostly mown, rather than surfaced, so can be a little muddy if there’s been a lot of rain.

Gallery…

This ‘Greenspace on your doorstep’ is managed by…

Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead