Parks and playgrounds directory

Location

Shirley, Temple Avenue.

Area

1 acre 0.40 hectares.

Facilities

• Woodland

History

The 1863‐68 Ordnance Survey Plan of the area shows the copse as a very similar shape today in the middle of open fields, it may in fact have been left as a game cover.  A stream ran around three sides of the copse and then flowed north to the ponds at Spring Park Farm and House, which is now the site of Millers Pond open space.  

Sweet Chestnut, Oak and Sycamore grow in the woodland which has been kept clear of most undergrowth so that children can play.  

Temple Avenue Copse is a small area of mixed woodland which was left by the developer of the surrounding estate between two houses and conveyed to the Council in 1934 as a public open space.