This website is part of the Forest of Marston Vale's campaign to let you know about plans for a massive new country park, close to the River Great Ouse. The Bedford River Valley Park will be a fabulous asset for Bedfordshire, extending Priory Country Park towards Willington.
In mid-May 2006, the Marston Vale Trust bought the 300-acre Grange Estate which forms part of the gravel workings alongside the River that are visible from the A421 east of Bedford. This will form the core of the new park. Money to make the purchase possible was granted to the Trust from the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). It gave the ‘green light’ for the Trust to produce a Framework for the Bedford River Valley Park and to create a vision for what will become Bedfordshire’s largest park.
The Park defined in the Bedford Borough Council local plan, published in 2002, is much larger than the Grange Estate; in fact it is over 2,000 acres (868 hectares) – that’s around 7 times the size of
Priory Country Park!
April 3rd 2008 saw the official release of the Framework document that will create a vision for what the Bedford River Valley Park will become. Download the document (17.5Mb) by clicking here and the accompanying map (5.5Mb) by clicking here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
Find out more.
- Find out about how the public got involved in road shows between June and August 2006
- Contact us direct at the Forest Centre - on receipt of an A4 stamped addressed envelope we will send you a copy of the Summary document (8 A4 pages). A pdf version can be downloaded by clicking here
- The June 2006 Commentree special edition is still available for download by clicking here (2.51Mb - Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
- You can ask to see a hard copy of the Framework at the Forest Centre, Bedford Town Hall, Bedford County Hall, Bedford Central Library, Priory House Chicksands, Sandy Town Council Offices, Bedford Tourist Information Office, Sandy & Biggleswade Libraries, the MBDC Citizone offices at Ampthill and Biggleswade.
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