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Unofficial WebsiteBarkers Park
Barkers Park is a seventy acre park with mature trees and shrubs planted on an old opencast site. Funds have been forthcoming and in 2006 new paths have been laid, the play area has been upgraded, a multi use games area installed and the bowling green improved. There is a Friends' Group. Older maps show this as Redscope Plantation. Trees were presumably planted on the old opencast site and this was then incorporated into the park, possibly in the 1970s.
The park leads to an area of playing fields adjacent to Redscope Primary School and an area of rough ground with gorse bushes and wild fruit trees. The car park seems to be off Redscope Crescent and is very small. There was a sign up in 2007 saying that funds were being sought to extend and improve the parking and other facilities.
Facilities:- Football pitches, Bowling green, Tennis courts, Children's play area.