Public park in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in the United Kingdom
Beacon Park
Museum Gardens with the spires of Lichfield Cathedral in the background.
Type
Public park
Location
Lichfield, Staffordshire
Area
69 acres (28 ha)
Elevation
80m AMSL
Created
1859
Operated by
Lichfield District Council
Open
All year
Awards
BALI Grand Award (2012)
Beacon Park is a public park in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in the United Kingdom. The park was created in 1859 when the Museum Gardens were laid out adjacent to the newly built Free Museum and Library. The park has since been extended in stages and now forms 69 acres (28 ha)[1] of open parkland in the city centre. The park is in the northwest of the city centre and to the west of the Cathedral Close across the road from the Garden of Remembrance.
The majority of the park was originally waterlogged marshland and a lake covered the area of what is now the Museum Gardens. The land was drained in the early 19th century and the Museum Gardens were raised with silt dredged from Minster Pool. The large northern area of the park once formed the land and gardens of Beacon House. This land was incorporated into the park when the owner of Beacon House, Colonel Swinfen Broun, donated the land after his death.
The park has many sporting and recreational facilities for use by the public, including an 18-hole golf course, football pitches, tennis courts and bowling greens. The park also hosts a wide range of events throughout the year including the Lichfield Bower and The Lichfield Festival. The park is home to many monuments, most notably a large bronze statue of Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic.
^About Beacon Park, Lichfield District Council, archived from the original on 8 March 2012, retrieved 5 April 2012
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