Place to explore / Great Baddow
Noakes Place sensory garden
Take a quieter garden pause beside the recreation ground.
- Where
- Noakes Place, behind the Community Association building, adjoining Great Baddow Recreation Ground
About this outing
Noakes Place adjoins Great Baddow Recreation Ground behind the Community Association building. It slopes towards Buckleys and Baddow Road, contains ponds and includes the sensory garden installed by the parish council. Supervise children around the ponds. It offers a different, quieter pause from the recreation ground playgrounds; no accessible-route or toilet provision is asserted.
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