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Panshanger Park is pleased to welcome back parkrun to the park after an extended break.

As the summer draws on we have been experiencing the varied great British summertime weather at its best! Panshanger Park is still staying busy through the summer and the free ‘Life at the Lake’ family events are taking place every Tuesday through August. These provide an opportunity to discover what...

Following the successful recruitment of two assistant park rangers, the parking charge at Thieves Lane car park will now be in place seven days a week.

As summer marches on, strawberries and cream featuring heavily, some sporting events having finished (but we won’t dwell on that!) and others starting, we are now able to enjoy the freedom of the great British summer and the many opportunities it provides for experiencing nature. At the moment Panshanger Park...

Plans for making Panshanger Park a sustainable country park and nature reserve are coming into fruition, with the recruitment of two assistant park rangers to manage Thieves Lane car park.

June this year has been made all the more exciting by the rather late arrival of Spring combined with some overdue warmth and sunshine! June is also when The Wildlife Trust’s ‘30 Days Wild’ nature challenge takes place.

Panshanger Park’s magnificent herd of English Longhorn Cattle will soon be returning to the site. English Longhorns are one of the most majestic of our native breeds and are perfect for grazing historic parklands.

The River Mimram is a chalk river, so named because most of the water in the river comes from springs flowing from the underground chalk aquifer – a natural underground water store. This creates the clear and well-oxygenated water that you can see flowing today. Chalk rivers are a globally...

Works will be starting soon along the banks of the River Mimram at Panshanger Park. Fencing is being erected along the edge of the Rifle Butts at the Eastern side of the park. This is being done to protect the fragile riverbank wildlife habitats from human activity.

As restrictions are starting to ease we may be enjoying our new-found freedom to go a little further afield and meet up with friends and family, who we may have only been seeing in 2D on a screen for the past few months!