Memorial Park - Sandhurst

Facilities and key features

Shepherd Meadows and Sandhurst Memorial Park have the following facilities and key features:

• jointly hold a prestigious Green Flag Award - the national excellence standard for parks management
• car parks located off the A321, Marshall Road and Yorktown Road
• Shepherd Meadows and parts of the Memorial Park have high nature conservation value and are part of the Blackwater Valley Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
• a network of tarmac, hoggin and mown pathways allow good access throughout the sites
• picnic benches that are located near the Blackwater River
• contact Hartley Wintney Angling Society for information about fishing permits along the Blackwater River

Wildlife

Both sites are important for nature conservation, especially Shepherd Meadows as it’s one of the last remaining undeveloped and agriculturally unimproved areas on the Blackwater River floodplain. For further information about wildlife you might spot, see our Shepherd Meadows and Sandhurst Memorial Park leaflet, which also provides a background to the sites history.