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Sunbury Walled Garden receives prestigious Green Flag Award
Published 25.07.2011 09:56
Sunbury Walled GardenLocal park is one of the best in the country

Sunbury Walled Garden in Lower Sunbury, Spelthorne is one of the best in the country – and that’s official!

Today, the Walled Garden will receive the Green Flag Award, a sign to visitors that the park is well-maintained and well-managed, with excellent facilities.  A high-quality green space in the village.

Sunbury Walled Garden is one of a record number of parks and green spaces receiving the Green Flag Award this year, ensuring that even more of us now have access to well-managed, high-quality green spaces.

In 2011, 1,288 parks and green spaces will fly either the Green Flag or Community Award, a sign that the value of green space is widely acknowledged as vital to our communities.

Councillor Penny Forbes-Forsyth, Spelthorne Council’s Cabinet Member for Parks and Leisure said: “This award is a tribute to all those who have worked so hard to make this particular local treasure such a wonderful place to visit. It is appreciated by both local residents as well as visitors from far afield and we are delighted to have this recognition”.

The historic walled garden in Sunbury Park was most probably built in the early part of the 18th Century for the large mansion built on the site for Sir Roger Hudson and there is a drawing in Colin Campbell's 'Vitruvius Britannicus' showing the housing in Sunbury Park in 1714.

Walled gardens were a particular feature of the larger Georgian and Victorian Houses, and were used for the growing of high quality fruit and vegetables for the wealthy owner of the house and very often would have included a specialist range of greenhouses for the growing of peaches and grapes.

The Sunbury example is particularly fine, covering as it does some two acres with the original walls in many places being 8 to 10ft high.

Phil Barton, Green Flag Plus Partnership chairman said: “I would like to congratulate this year’s winners, who have worked hard throughout the year to keep their parks and green spaces at a high standard and ensure they are pleasant and enjoyable spaces for the whole community.

“The Green Flag Award Scheme, and its growth, is essential in driving up the standards of our parks and green spaces.  Access to quality green space is something we all desire and the scheme plays a key role in providing it.

“In these challenging financial times it is heartening that the number of Green Flag Awards continue to grow.  As the value of green space and the role it plays in our communities strengthens, we must ensure these high standards remain.”

All award-winning sites now have the chance to receive a further award from the Green Flag Plus Partnership, the People’s Choice Award.  This award is voted for by the public, so if you want to see your local park receive a national accolade as the people’s choice, then visit the Green Flag Award website now to register your vote.


For more information visit:
www.greenflagaward.org.uk (external website)
www.keepbritaintidy.org (external website)
www.communities.gov.uk (external website)
www.green-space.org.uk (external website)
www.btcv.org (external website)

Media enquiries to the Spelthorne Council Communications team on 01784 446297/444260/446370/446373