Southwark Park is a Grade II-listed park and garden in Bermondsey, near the banks of the River Thames. It covers an area of 63 acres.
For more than 150 years, the local community has used it as a space to relax, experience nature, and participate in sports and physical activities.
The park offers fantastic wide-open spaces, perfect for playing games, picnics, walking, or just enjoying the scenery. It also offers a wide range of sporting facilities, a café, an art gallery, a lake, and wonderful gardens.
Opening times
Southwark Park's gates open daily at 7.30am. Closing times vary throughout the year.
Location
The park is located at Gomm Road, London, SE16 2ET.
Entrances into the park are at:
- Jamaica Road
- Lower Road
- Southwark Park Road
- Gomm Road
All entrances are for pedestrians only, except the Jamaica Road gate, which takes you onto Southwark Park Road (where you can park for a limited time), and the Hawkstone Road car park.
How to get there
You can travel by:
- tube - Bermondsey, Canada Water, Surrey Quays or Rotherhithe station
- bus - 1, 47, 188, 199, 225, 381, 395, P13
- car or bike - car park located at Hawkstone Road. Bikes can be parked at Hawkstone Road and Gomm Road
Find detailed accessibility information for Southwark Park Bowl Pavilion.
Facilities and features
- The Southwark Park Pavilion Café is managed by Colicci who serve specialty coffee blends and all-day hot food. Opening times are from 8am to 7.30pm in the summer and 8am to 4pm in the winter
- Toilets are next door to the café, there are separate male, female, and accessible/baby changing toilets.
- Playground for children up to age 14
- Southwark Park Sports and Athletics Centre, next to Hawkstone Car Park
the Rotherhithe Children & Family centre. Found online at ccadmin@pilgrimsway.southwark.sch.uk
- Southwark Park Galleries exhibits contemporary art and launches new talent. Opening times are 11am to 5pm daily except Monday and opens at 12.30pm on Tuesday. Found online at admin@southwarkparkgalleries.org
- Wheelchair access available throughout the park and at the café
- Boating lake operates in the summer season
- Ada Salter garden named in honour of Ada Salter and was laid out in 1936 as a semi-circular herbaceous garden
- The caryatides located near Jamaica Gate are the caryatides of the Rotherhithe Old Town Hall from 1897 which were moved to the Heygate Estate and later placed in Southwark Park in 2011. Access to admire the caryatides closer can be arranged by emailing parks@southwark.gov.uk
- Bandstand in the north side of the park, the ornate Bandstand was erected (relocated from the Grand Exhibition) by 1885. It was lost soon after World War II, this was then later replaced.
Sports facilities
The park offers:
