Description
Yardley Recreation Ground is open grassland with a few trees, with ornamental gates to Wordsworth Drive. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as open land. A piece of open woodland next to the road called The Spinney to the north-west has some fine trees.
Practical Information
| Site location | Wordsworth Drive, Cheam |
|---|---|
| Postcode | SM3 8EG |
| What3Words | ///spin.locate.social |
| Type of Site | Public Park |
| Borough | Sutton |
| Open to Public | Yes |
| Opening Times | 8am - dusk |
| Public Transport | Rail: Stonleigh, West Sutton. Bus: 293, 193, 213, 726, 83. |
| Research Updated | 1 November 2004 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Full description
Pending further research
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ234645 |
|---|---|
| Size in hectares | 0.6 |
| Site Ownership | LB Sutton |
| Site Management | Parks Service |
| On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens | No |
| Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965 | No |
| Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931 | No |
| Local Authority | Sutton |
| In Conservation Area | No |
| Tree Preservation Order | No |
| Nature Conservation Area | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | No |
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Nearby parks and gardens
Fairlands Park is an undulating landscape with tarmac walk and cycle path, with trees and shrubs. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as an open field of a similar shape to that of the park today.
Cheam Park and Cheam Recreation Ground are the former grounds of Cheam Park House. An C18th house built by Dr Edmund Sanxay, it was considerably enlarged in the early 1800s by London tea merchant Archdale Palmer. It was purchased by Mrs Bethell in 1920 and became known as Bethell House. After her death in 1937 the house and grounds were purchased by Sutton Council, for the benefit of the public in perpetuity. The house was demolished following bomb damage in WWII. The site is in two parts with Cheam Park the more formally planted and Cheam Recreation Ground to the north having a more open landscape.
Cuddington Recreation Ground dates from c.1930 and the bowling green is surrounded by railings of the same fretted ornamental type as found at Rosehill Park West and Quarry Park. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as part of open land and fields to the south of Ruffet Wood and Big Wood. The park is on slightly undulating land, cut through by the Beverley Brook with a heavily wooded belt of willows and oaks near the banks, and has open grassland with mature and young trees both around the perimeter and in discrete clumps.