Category: News

Read the Nottingham Post Article on Wollaton Park: With the cost of living on the rise, many people are looking for great ways to entertain their kids without breaking the bank – and one Nottingham venue seems to be offering just that. Wollaton Halland Deer Park attracts visitors from not only across Nottingham – but the […]

Have you seen the green, pebble-like blobs in the lake? Kitty, a Volunteer Park Ranger describes it as “Ophrydium versatile”, a colonial freshwater organism. To form the balls they group together and live in symbiotic association with “chlorella” (green algae), where they both benefit from the interaction. The algae photosynthesise and share some of the […]

The Wollaton Arts Festival comes to Wollaton Park on Sunday, July 9th. See the Wollaton Arts Festival website for more details.

Wollaton Park ranked 4th in the UK’s list of top Picnic spots by You Magazine. These are the UK’s most popular picnic spots.

A new conservation task has been scheduled for Saturday, June 24.We plan to create a “Dead Fence” to partition the area on Digby Avenue used by park staff to put brash to rot down into compost for the gardens. Please let us know if you plan to attend, so we can have sufficient tools available.

Wollaton Park opened at 4:30 m on Sunday May 7th, for the RSPB International Dawn Chorus Day A sample of the sounds (credit Colin Robbins): Local resident Wendy McDonald reported hearing the following birds – all before breakfast in the cafe at 7am. Many thanks to the Park staff for rising early to open up […]