Visiting the park
Open space
About half of the park is green open space, with sports pitches, play equipment and plenty of space to relax with friends. Facilities include:
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- A play area for children under 10 years old, which includes:
- Climbing frame
- Small and large slides
- Combination balance beam, rubber steps and wobble board
- Two baby swings
- Two child swings
- Springer
- See-saw
- Mini roundabout
- Floor-painted maze, alphabet snail, numerical snake and hopscotch
- A play area for children under 10 years old, which includes:
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- Equipment for older children, teenagers and adults:
- Climbing boulders
- Basketball hoop
- Horizontal ladder, chin-up bars and parallel bars
- Flymobile
- Tyre Swing
- Football kick frame
- Equipment for older children, teenagers and adults:
Basketball hoop
Climbing boulders
Our climbing boulders are some of several pieces of equipment we have for older children in the park
Flymobile in action
Our flymobile in action!
Football kickframe
Trim trail
Our trim trail includes horizontal ladder, chin-up bars and parallel bars
Tyre swing
- A football pitch, marked for both 9- and 11-aside football
- A number of benches and picnic tables, and a hangout shelter
- Plenty of bins for rubbish (please do help to keep your park tidy)
Please note that there are no public toilets at Oakley Park.
The woodland
Oakley Park has about 3 acres of woodland, which is a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) and is lovely to explore at any time of year. The woods is full of diverse wildlife including a protected species of bats and a variety of birds, reptiles, foxes and squirrels. There are pathways throughout the woodland, which are relatively even but unmade in places and may be difficult to navigate with wheelchairs and pushchairs.
The woodland features a small pond with a dipping platform and a number of streams which flow through the park and woodland to eventually feed into Fleet Pond. There are interpretation boards with information about the trees in the woodland and the pond life in and around the pond.
There is plenty of space to explore or sit and watch the wildlife, and there is a bench in the woodland, near the pond, overlooking children’s playground.
Wintry scene
A wintry scene in Oakley Park woods
Woodland
Oakley Park’s three-acre woodland has a diverse wildlife including a protected species of bats and a variety of birds, reptiles, foxes and squirrels
Pond dipping platform
The pond in Oakley Park woods has a pond dipping platform
Orienteering course
The Friends of Oakley Park and Southern Navigators Club have a permanent, 20-post orienteering course in Oakley Park. Orienteering is a sport where competitors of all ages and abilities navigate their way, at their own pace, between features marked on a special map. The course is particularly suitable for families or anyone who would like to learn more about navigating. For legal reasons we cannot put a map directly on to the website. If you would like a copy of the map and instructions, then please email [Oakleypark – Orienteering] and the information will be automatically sent to you.
Explore the park with our trail
Finding us
The park is 10 minutes’ walk from Fleet Road and 15 minutes’ walk from Fleet station. There are pedestrian entrances via Kings Road, Burnside, Albany Road and George Road.
If you are visiting us by car, there is on-street parking on Albany Road (postcode: GU51 3LY). Parking is restricted to 2 hours on Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, with no restrictions after 6pm or at weekends. Please park sensibly so as not to cause obstruction to local residents.