Blackwood Park - Streetly
Pedestrian Access only via:
Blackwood Road (Main entrance)
Cedar Drive
Lowlands Avenue
Larchwood Crescent
This park has all of the following amenities:
- Woodland
- Conservation area
- All weather multi-sports pitch
- Children’s play area ( under 12’s)
- Picnic benches
- Tennis courts
- Bowling Green
This park consists of all the above, along with a delightful area of woodland, which attracts many different species of birds, butterflies and wildlife.
This area of parkland was originally known as Foley Wood. In the 1920s’ there was a serious fire in the woods and people came from as far away as Dudley to help put it out. There was considerable damage to the trees and due to their “blackened” appearance the area became know as Blackwood. This piece of history is referred to in ‘The Streetly Local History Trail by Charles Robertson, published in 1981 by Walsall Local History Centre.
Bus Numbers
377 from Sutton Coldfield to Walsall – Blackwood Road Entrance
196 From Sutton Coldfield to the Queslett Road – Lowlands Avenue Entrance