{"id":4396,"date":"2026-08-04T22:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:37:43","slug":"newsham-park-garden-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool","title":{"rendered":"Newsham Park &amp; Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"padrino-inject-root\">\n<div class=\"padrino-inject-inner\">\n<div data-padrino-shell=\"1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/top-parks\">\u2190 Where to go in Liverpool: ranking of 10 parks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Park<\/strong> \u00b7 <span>Liverpool<\/span> \u00b7 \u2b50 8.9\/10 \u00b7 2357 reviews  \u00b7 <em>updated: 2026-08-04 20:22:03<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> <span>Gardner&#039;s Dr, Liverpool L6 7UN, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex is-nowrap wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"tel:+441512333000\">Call<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=53.4178954,-2.93405\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get directions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a75e5c44a9e9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a75e5c44a9e9\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Newsham_Park_%E2%80%94_the_Victorian_park_that_made_Edward_Kemps_name\" >Newsham Park \u2014 the Victorian park that made Edward Kemp&#8217;s name<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Highlights\" >Highlights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#What_youll_find\" >What you&#8217;ll find<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\" >Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Getting_there_practical\" >Getting there &amp; practical<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#When_to_visit\" >When to visit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Good_to_know\" >Good to know<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Visitor_tips\" >Visitor tips<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Questions_answers\" >Questions &amp; answers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Photos\" >Photos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/liverpoolname.com\/en\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool\/#Visitor_reviews\" >Visitor reviews<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Newsham_Park_%E2%80%94_the_Victorian_park_that_made_Edward_Kemps_name\"><\/span>Newsham Park \u2014 the Victorian park that made Edward Kemp&#8217;s name<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spread across 121 acres of high ground between Tuebrook, Fairfield and Kensington, Newsham Park is where Edward Kemp stepped out of Joseph Paxton&#8217;s shadow and became a designer in his own right. Drawn up in 1864, begun in 1865 and opened to the public in 1868, it was Kemp&#8217;s first solo commission for a municipal park \u2014 and it still reads almost exactly as he laid it out. Two lakes lie in a shallow valley, a long open meadow lets the eye run unbroken for hundreds of metres, belts of mature limes, planes and horse chestnuts screen the boundaries, and a rim of substantial Victorian villas encloses the whole composition. Those villas are not an accident: the plots were sold off through the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s precisely to pay for the park behind them. Add a mansion that has hosted a queen, a shah and a future king, and the gaunt silhouette of a derelict Alfred Waterhouse landmark on the skyline, and you have one of Liverpool&#8217;s most layered green spaces \u2014 an everyday neighbourhood park carrying a national-register pedigree.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Highlights\"><\/span>Highlights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Edward Kemp&#8217;s 1864 layout<\/strong> \u2014 the park is the first solo public commission by the man who had spent decades as superintendent of Birkenhead Park under Joseph Paxton. Kemp&#8217;s signature moves are all here: sinuous perimeter drives, a broad central sweep of grass left deliberately empty, planting massed at the edges to hide the city, and water shaped to look accidental. He went on to design Grosvenor Park in Chester, Hesketh Park in Southport, Anfield Cemetery and Liverpool&#8217;s Stanley Park, but Newsham is where the style was first tested at full scale.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The two lakes<\/strong> \u2014 the larger, irregularly shaped lake sits below mounded grass banks and is a long-established coarse fishery, stocked with roach, carp and tench; angling requires a permit. The smaller water is a purpose-built model boating lake, and a pedestrian bridge crosses the water so the circuit can be walked without doubling back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The cast-iron bandstand<\/strong> \u2014 octagonal, late 19th century, with bracketed cast-iron columns rising from a brick base with stone detailing beneath a low bell-shaped roof. It stands towards the western end of the park within its own ring of railings and is listed Grade II in its own right.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Newsham House, the Judges&#8217; Lodging<\/strong> \u2014 a late-18th-century mansion built for Thomas Molyneux of West Derby. Kemp actually proposed demolishing it; instead it was refurbished in 1866\u201367 and became the official lodging for judges attending Liverpool&#8217;s assizes and Crown Court, a role it held for more than seventy years. It is listed Grade II.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The former Royal Liverpool Seamen&#8217;s Orphan Institution<\/strong> \u2014 Alfred Waterhouse&#8217;s vast Gothic brick pile of 1871\u201374, built for the orphaned children of seafarers and opened on 30 September 1874 by the Duke of Edinburgh, the &#8220;Sailor Prince&#8221;. It has stood empty since the 1990s and is derelict, sealed and unsafe: it is a landmark to look at across the grass, never a building to approach or enter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The great meadow and the perimeter circuit<\/strong> \u2014 the open central sweep still carries cricket, informal football, kite-flying and picnics, while a full loop of the park&#8217;s edges measures roughly 3.5 km, which is why it is one of north-east Liverpool&#8217;s most-used running and cycling circuits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_youll_find\"><\/span>What you&#8217;ll find<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Newsham is a large park that never feels crowded, because Kemp&#8217;s plan splits it into distinct rooms: the water at one end, the meadow in the middle, the formal fringe of gardens and railings around the rim. Facilities have been layered in over 150 years without erasing the Victorian bones.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Children&#8217;s playground<\/strong> \u2014 swings, a roundabout, a see-saw and multi-play equipment, set close to the lakes so families can combine a play stop with a circuit of the water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Action sports hub<\/strong> \u2014 a hard-surfaced wheeled-sports area built for skateboarders, BMX riders and scooter riders, which has become the park&#8217;s main teenage gathering point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cricket and pitch sport<\/strong> \u2014 a resident cricket club runs junior and senior training on the open ground, and the meadow doubles as informal football space the rest of the year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tennis courts and lawns<\/strong> \u2014 courts and ornamental lawns with flowerbeds survive from the park&#8217;s more formal Edwardian phase.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lake View Kiosk<\/strong> \u2014 hot and cold snacks, drinks and confectionery beside the water, typically serving from around 9am to 5pm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Victorian hard landscape<\/strong> \u2014 railings of about 1900 set on a stone plinth along the western boundary, original gate piers, boundary walls and the surviving carriage drives that now function as the walking and cycling network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\"><\/span>Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Families with young children<\/strong> \u2014 a compact circuit that pairs the playground with ducks, swans and the model boats gives you an easy hour without ever being far from the kiosk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Runners and cyclists<\/strong> \u2014 the roughly 3.5 km perimeter loop is broad, mostly gently graded and lit at the edges, making it a reliable year-round training circuit rather than a fair-weather one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anglers<\/strong> \u2014 the larger lake is a genuine coarse fishery for roach, carp and tench; a permit is required, and early mornings on the far bank are the quiet slot.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Model boat enthusiasts and spectators<\/strong> \u2014 the Liverpool Model Boat Club, founded in 1964, sails on the purpose-built lake on Sunday and Wednesday mornings from about 10am; it is free to stand and watch, and the club has a long shared history with Walton Hall Park, where it spent years before returning to Newsham in 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture and history walkers<\/strong> \u2014 a single slow lap takes in Kemp&#8217;s landscape, a Waterhouse landmark, a Grade II listed mansion with a royal guest list and one of the finest surviving rings of Victorian villa architecture in the city.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photographers and birdwatchers<\/strong> \u2014 the lakes hold gulls, swans, coots, moorhens and wintering wildfowl, and the derelict orphanage tower catching low winter light across open grass is the single most photographed view in this part of Liverpool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_there_practical\"><\/span>Getting there &amp; practical<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The park sits about 3.5 km north-east of the city centre, straddling the Tuebrook, Fairfield and Kensington districts. There is no station on the doorstep any more \u2014 the two that once served it, Stanley in the south-east corner and Tue Brook on the north-east side, both closed long ago, and the old Canada Dock branch railway still forms the eastern edge. In practice you arrive either from Liverpool Lime Street, the city&#8217;s mainline hub, or from Edge Hill on the Merseyrail City Line, both roughly a half-hour walk or a short bus ride away; from either, frequent city bus services including the 12, 13, 18 and 68 groups run out along the corridors that flank the park&#8217;s northern and western sides and drop you at its gates. Entry is free and there is no ticket, gate charge or booking of any kind \u2014 only angling requires a paid permit. The park is open daily throughout the year and is best treated as a daylight destination, since lighting is limited once you leave the main drives. Allow 45 minutes for a brisk lap, an hour and a half if you want to circle both lakes properly and stop at the bandstand, and half a day if you intend to combine the walk with the surrounding Victorian conservation-area streets.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_to_visit\"><\/span>When to visit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spring is the park&#8217;s most flattering season: the mature limes and horse chestnuts leaf up, bulbs come through on the banked grass around the water, and the lakes fill with broods of coots and moorhens \u2014 late April and May are when Kemp&#8217;s screening planting finally does its job and the surrounding city disappears. Summer is the social peak, with cricket on the meadow, the model boat club out on Sunday mornings, the kiosk busy and the playground and wheeled-sports area running from mid-morning to dusk; it is also the only season when the park regularly hosts large outdoor events. Autumn is the connoisseur&#8217;s choice \u2014 the tree belts turn along the drives, the light drops low across the open grass, and the anglers get the lakes largely to themselves as the crowds thin. Winter strips the park back to its structure and is when the Waterhouse orphanage looks most extraordinary, its roofline and turret rearing above bare branches; wildfowl numbers on the larger lake rise, paths can be muddy off the surfaced drives, and the short afternoons mean you should plan to be finishing your lap by mid-afternoon rather than starting it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Good_to_know\"><\/span>Good to know<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Liverpool Corporation bought the Newsham estate and the neighbouring Yellow House farmland between 1846 and 1850 for a sum recorded at around \u00a3100,000, intending a public park from the outset \u2014 but municipal finances stalled the scheme for nearly two decades. Edward Kemp, by then the most experienced park superintendent in the north-west after more than forty years at Birkenhead Park, was commissioned in 1864; work started in 1865 and the park opened in 1868. The economics were characteristically Victorian: building plots around the perimeter were sold through the 1870s to 1890s, and the substantial semi-detached villas that went up on them both funded and framed the landscape, which is why the park is enclosed today by a conservation area of unusually consistent quality. Newsham House itself dates from the late 18th century and was built for Thomas Molyneux of West Derby; Kemp wanted it gone, but instead it was reworked in 1866\u201367 and from 1868 served as the Judges&#8217; Lodging, taking over a function that had spent the previous thirty-three years elsewhere in the city. Its guest book is remarkable: the Duke of Edinburgh stayed in 1874 when he laid a foundation stone at the Walker Art Gallery; Queen Victoria stayed from 11 to 13 May 1886 with the Duke of Connaught and Prince Henry of Battenberg during the great International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce and Manufacture; the Shah of Persia was a guest in 1889; the Duke of York \u2014 the future King George V \u2014 came in 1894; Prince Arthur of Connaught followed in 1910, and Earl Beatty in 1919 when he received the Freedom of the City. A 1939 reconstruction enlarged the house to sleep three judges rather than two and added an air-raid shelter. In 1877 the park itself hosted that year&#8217;s Royal Agricultural Show, a national event that briefly put Kemp&#8217;s new landscape in front of the whole country. The other great building on the site has a harder story. The Royal Liverpool Seamen&#8217;s Orphan Institution, built to Alfred Waterhouse&#8217;s designs in 1871\u201374 at a cost of more than \u00a320,000 on land granted beside the park around 1870, existed to house the children of men lost at sea \u2014 a constant of a port city. By 1884 the institution supported roughly 800 fatherless children, about half of them living on site, and 321 were resident in 1899; Queen Victoria visited in May 1886 and became its patron. It closed as an orphanage on 27 July 1949, was bought by the Ministry of Health for \u00a3125,000 in 1951, and reopened in 1954 as Newsham Park Hospital, largely psychiatric. It stopped admitting patients in 1988, the last were moved out by 1992, and the building was finally vacated in 1997. It has decayed ever since: water ingress and dry rot are widespread, windows are boarded, and a residential conversion scheme was abandoned. The park as a whole is registered Grade II on the National Heritage List and appears on Historic England&#8217;s Heritage at Risk Register, its condition assessed as poor. A Friends of Newsham Park group works with the council through a park forum on repairs and new facilities, and the four-storey Academy of St Francis of Assisi, built in 2004 at the western end, is the most recent large structure to arrive on the estate.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_tips\"><\/span>Visitor tips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Walk the lakes anticlockwise and finish on the meadow: you get the orphanage and the bandstand in front of you rather than behind you, and the best light on the water falls on that side in the afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday and Wednesday mornings from about 10am are model boat days \u2014 worth timing a visit around if you have children, and it costs nothing to watch from the bank.<\/li>\n<li>Treat the derelict orphanage strictly as a view. It is sealed, structurally unsound and patrolled; admire the Waterhouse silhouette from the open grass and do not approach the fencing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Questions_answers\"><\/span>Questions &amp; answers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Is Newsham Park free to enter?<\/strong> Yes. There is no admission charge, no ticket and no booking; the park is public open space maintained by Liverpool City Council. The only thing you pay for is an angling permit if you intend to fish, and anything you buy at the lakeside kiosk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is it and how long is a full circuit?<\/strong> The park covers 121 acres, roughly 49 hectares. A complete loop of the perimeter is about 3.5 km, which is a 45-minute walk at a steady pace or a comfortable 20-minute run. Circling both lakes and stopping at the bandstand pushes it closer to an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you go inside the old orphanage?<\/strong> No, and you should not try. The former Royal Liverpool Seamen&#8217;s Orphan Institution \u2014 later Newsham Park Hospital \u2014 has been empty since 1997 and is derelict, with water damage and dry rot throughout. It is fenced, boarded and monitored. It is a magnificent thing to look at from the park, and that is where the experience should stop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who designed the park, and why does that matter?<\/strong> Edward Kemp, who had worked under Joseph Paxton at Birkenhead Park and then run it as superintendent for over forty years. Newsham was his first solo public park design, prepared in 1864, and it is the point at which his own vocabulary \u2014 long open sweeps, edge planting, informal water \u2014 separates from Paxton&#8217;s. That makes the park nationally significant, not just locally loved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you fish in the lakes?<\/strong> Yes, on the larger lake, with a permit. It is stocked with roach, carp and tench and is fished year-round. The smaller water is reserved for model boats rather than angling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did royalty really stay here?<\/strong> Yes \u2014 at Newsham House, the mansion inside the park that became the Judges&#8217; Lodging in 1868. Queen Victoria stayed there from 11 to 13 May 1886, the Duke of Edinburgh in 1874, the Shah of Persia in 1889 and the future King George V, then Duke of York, in 1894.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it suitable for buggies and wheelchairs?<\/strong> The main carriage drives are surfaced, broad and only gently graded, so the principal circuit works well for wheels. The grass paths across the meadow and some of the lake banks are softer and can be muddy after rain, so in winter it is worth sticking to the drives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best time of day to visit?<\/strong> Mornings for quiet, wildfowl and anglers; late afternoon for the light on the lakes and the orphanage. Because lighting away from the main drives is limited, plan to finish in daylight, particularly between November and February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"entity-gallery\" class=\"padrino-entity-gallery\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photos\"><\/span>Photos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-1.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-2.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-3.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-4.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-5.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-6.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<details>\n<summary>Show 1 more photos<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.liverpoolname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/08\/newsham-park-garden-liverpool-7.jpg\" alt=\"Newsham Park &amp; Garden\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments-area wp-block-group\">\n<h2 class=\"comments-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_reviews\"><\/span>Visitor reviews<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"comment-list\">\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-0\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-0\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Giska Ayu Pradana<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n18 April 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A very quiet park for birdwatching and skateboarding<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Jessica wilcock<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n10 November 2025<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>Great skate park!!!!! Especially for my children, who skateboard. It&#039;s a bit annoying that the caf\u00e9 only takes cash, but if you know in advance it&#039;s not a problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Ania Barton<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n18 August 2025<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A great place for any event. We organised a picnic and 50 people came. It was simply an incredible time! So much space for children and adults to have a wonderful and relaxing experience. It&#039;s great for people with pets\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Maudi Fria Andhini<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n3 December 2024<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>An absolutely lovely park. Went for a walk with a friend and we really enjoyed our time. There are lots of animals here, it&#039;s great fun watching how comfortable they are in this nature. There&#039;s a playground, a skate park\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Samantha Jayne<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n5 August 2025<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 8.1\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>An absolutely lovely park, a great venue for the Afro-culture Carnival. My only comment was that the public toilets were locked until the event finished, even the disabled changing rooms, which already need a radar key,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Reviews last updated: 2026-08-04 20:22:03<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Data is refreshed monthly. 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