Getting There
Sat Nav: B74 2YT
Leave the M6 at Junction 7 and bear left onto the A34, signed Birmingham, northbound 1st exit, southbound 1st exit.
Follow signs to Birmingham A34 until the second set of traffic lights. Turn left. This is Queslett Road.
At the 1st roundabout, go straight on signed Brownhills A4041.
At the next roundabout turn right to drive down King's Road.
At the next roundabout take the 3rd exit (Rough Road).
Go straight over the next set of traffic lights onto Monmouth Drive, signed Sutton Coldfield, and pass the Golf Course/Sailing Club on the left.
Go straight over the next roundabout and turn left at the traffic lights, signed Tamworth A453. This is Somerville Road.
Drive past the Leisure Centre on your left and at the small roundabout, turn left and go straight on to enter the park through the Town Gate.
Return to M6 Junction 7
Leave through the Town Gate and turn right at the small roundabout to drive down Somerville Road.
At the traffic lights turn right to return along Monmouth Drive.
Go straight over the next set of lights and at the roundabout take the 3rd exit onto King's Road.
At the next roundabout, turn left and drive down Queslett Road.
Continue straight over the next roundabout and at the traffic lights turn right onto the A34. This road returns to junction 7 of the M6.
Sutton Park National Nature Reserve
This is a former deer park , with 2,400 acres of open space. There are 7 lakes, a terrain that is a mix of heathland, woodlands, wetlands and marshes. Dogs are welcome, but there are restrictions in place to keep dogs away from certain areas to protect the wildlife at breeding times. You may see the wild cattle and ponies, or even a stoat or two.
Most of the park is designated an ancient monument (as well as a site of special scientific interest and national nature reserve). Our ancestors obviously liked the place, and there are three archaeological walks taking you past a Roman road, and evidence of prehistoric Brummies.
More recently, Sutton Park was used as an army training camp in WW1, with up to 50,000 recruits in training here.
Walkwise, probably the best thing to do is to start at the Visitor Centre, and choose one of the helpful leaflets with walk routes and at the same time find out where dogs may not be permitted, and get the poo bags too. The park is so vast that there will always be more than enough space for everyone.
Facilities
Opening times: 0900 to dusk.
Car parks at all entrances, charge payable. WCs – Town Gate entrance and Visitor Centre.
There is a visitor centre in the park, near a leisure centre, with parking close by for disabled car users only. Poo bags are available free of charge at the visitor centre – (and a hefty £1000 fine if you don't use them). Rangers are on duty throughout the park.
Refreshments: Town Gate café – at the town gate entrance provides family snacks and light meals, ice cream.
A Toby Carvery (also near the Town Gate) – serves food all day. Dogs are allowed in the outside seating area, but not inside.
Useful Links
Sutton Park
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