🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entry🌲 Woodland🛝 Playground
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Picnic area
Barkers Lane Car Park is the main visitor car park (off Barkers Lane, MK41 9DJ); Cardington Mill Car Park (off Stannard Way, MK44 3RZ) provides easy access to the water. No parking charges stated on council pages.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Priory Country Park is a 360 acre green space of lakes, meadows and woodland, partly enclosed within a bend in the River Great Ouse. The park holds habitats from reed beds to quiet walks, with bird hides, fishing (permit required), boating and paddle sports on the river, and play areas. Priory Sailing Club offers dinghy sailing, windsurfing and paddle sports day tickets at weekends. Walking trails are marked in three colours. The Cloverdale Retreat café overlooks the main lake with elevated decking outside. The park is a County Wildlife Site with areas left undisturbed for wildlife, and holds a Green Flag Award.
Fishing season runs 16 June to 14 March each year (Environment Agency rod licence + council permit required).
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Folding stool
- Backseat organiser
- Camera for them
- Sun hat
- Sun cream
- Changing mat
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