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Milton country park

Milton Country Park is now owned and looked after by Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust. After several months of hard work and planning by SCDC and Cambridge Sports Lake Trust and the park rangers themselves paid off when the transfer was carried out successfully at the end of March.

Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust plans to introduce some new activities to the park and is looking at funding opportunities to rebuild the visitor centre with a proper café area and meeting room. For more information please visit their website (This link will open in a new window).

Formerly farmland, both arable and pasture, Milton Country Park owes much of its present appearance to the extraction of sand and gravel for the building of roads and houses from about 1930 to 1960. However, the first material taken from the site was clay, in much smaller quantities, by Romano British potters about 1800 years previously.

When sand and gravel extraction ceased around 1960, the site became overgrown with thick hawthorn and willow scrub and entered a period of neglect and misuse that ended in 1990 when work started on the Country Park. This work continued until 1993, the year the Park opened to the public.

At present the SCDC can no long afford to fund looking after the park so they are looking for an organisation that is willing to take on the running of the park so that it can remain open. Please have a look at the future of the park web pages for more information and how you can help.

Milton Country Park has so much to offer

• A haven of peace and quiet not far from the city of Cambridge
• A network of paths over 2 miles in length that run throughout the area, suitable for bicycles and wheelchairs, as well as those on foot.
• Access is also available to the Fen Rivers Way.
• There is a marked trail for horse riders.
• Many areas for picnics and play equipment for children
• Dogs are welcome but please remember that byelaws relating to dogs on leads and 'poop scoops' are in operation.
• Fishing is available in both of the lakes from a number of easily accessible platforms, however, an annual permit or a day ticket from the Angling Club is required.
• Friends of Milton Country Park (This link will open in a new window), the parks group of volunteers who fundraise and organise events.
  Membership is free and you can join by writing to:
  FOMCP c/o Visitor Centre
  Milton Country Park
  Cambridge Road
  Milton, Cambridge CB4 6AZ
  or you can email: fmcp@miltonvillage.org.uk (This link will open in a new window)