'Try Out Our Book Box & Book Exchange'
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Take a free book from our book box (at Putt in the Park), try it out, photograph it, post it!!
Leave a book in exchange...
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Forthcoming Events
End of May
Seasonal walk around the park led by Cindy Salmon
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End of June
Stall in the park
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26th July 20th Anniversary Celebration of FoCP
11am to 4pm on and around the Bandstand
For further details, please
email Diana Hargrave at focp.whatson@gmail.com
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View the
Bandstand Concert programme for
summer 2025
A free programme of afternoon music from May through to the end of August (as soon as we receive the programme)
Local reflections on park wildife
and wildlife management
Ted Benton on wildlife and 'low mow' in and around the park...
Birds of Castle Park by Michael Padmore, with photographs by Sean Nixon and Glyn Evans
Discover Christopher Howard's
Tree Trail and the Park Oaks...
Tour the park through engagement and learning about its wonderful collection of trees. Download the tree trail from our site or pick up a copy for a small sum at either Hollytrees Visitor Information Centre or the Red Lion Bookshop on the High St.
About
Colchester Castle Park
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Colchester’s distinctive heritage is nowhere more apparent than in Castle Park. A site of national importance, this Victorian Park contains evidence of 2000 years of history and is a landscape moulded by the people of Colchester over many eras.