Church Road Recreation Ground & Play Area
🏟 Playground & park · Meole Brace, Shrewsbury
Church Road Recreation Ground & Play Area
A Meole Brace recreation ground with a woodchip play area featuring swings, a climber and a multi-play slide, plus football and basketball.
🕑 Opening & entry
🌱 Open daily, dawn to dusk · Free · No booking needed
📍 Location & directions
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Address: Church Road, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, SY3 9HF
Plus Code: 9C4VM6RQ+57
About Church Road Recreation Ground & Play Area
Church Road Recreation Ground is the local green space for Meole Brace in the south of Shrewsbury, managed by Shrewsbury Town Council. It pairs a children's play area with open sports space, making it a practical stop for families with a range of ages. The infant and junior play area is laid on a woodchip surface and includes a set of flat swings and a set of cradle swings, a climber, a multi-play unit with a slide, and a spring crocodile that is popular with younger children. Around the play area the recreation ground offers a football pitch and two basketball frames on a bitmac-surfaced area for older children and teenagers wanting a kick-about or a game of hoops, together with a changing room and hut serving the pitch. A picnic bench provides somewhere to sit and eat. Set on Church Road in the historic Meole Brace area, the recreation ground is a free, open community facility that complements the surrounding residential streets and is within easy reach of the wider Rea Brook Valley green corridor nearby.
⭐ What makes this place special
- football pitch
- 2 basketball frames on bitmac area
- changing room & hut
- picnic bench
🏞 Facilities
- Free entry
- Play surface: Woodchip
🧒 Ages & play
- Ages: Infant and junior
- flat swings (1 bay, 2 seat)
- climber
- multi play/slide
- spring crocodile
- cradle swings (1 bay, 2 seat)
📍 Nearby places to play
- The Quarry Play Area & Splash Park · approx 1.2 miles · Town Centre
- Rad Valley Play Area (Oakfield Drive / Rad Valley Road) · approx 1.4 miles · Radbrook
- Castle Walk Recreation Ground & Play Area · approx 1.7 miles · Castlefields
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❓ Frequently asked questions
Is Church Road Recreation Ground free?
Yes, it is a free public recreation ground and play area in Meole Brace managed by Shrewsbury Town Council.
What is in the play area?
The woodchip play area has flat and cradle swings, a climber, a multi-play unit with a slide and a spring crocodile.
Are there sports facilities?
Yes, there is a football pitch with a changing room and two basketball frames on a bitmac area.
Where is it?
It is on Church Road in the Meole Brace area of south Shrewsbury, postcode SY3 9HF.
Is there seating?
Yes, there is a picnic bench on site.