100 Years of Ashburton Park

September 2026

Open House Festival event: History tours of Ashburton Hall and Park

On Saturday 19 September 2026, from 11am to 3pm, join our free history tours of Ashburton Hall and Park. Visit our food growing space and hear updates on our park restoration project.

Hear how we are restoring our park with:

• more signage celebrating the heritage of the park/historic hall
• building a new bandstand, sensory garden and wetland area
• community events and festivals
• artefacts from our archaeology project
• food growing

Tour times and where to meet

Drop-in tour times are:

• 11am to 12pm
• 1.30pm to 2.30pm

Meet outside Ashburton Hall café.

Download the tours of Ashburton Hall and Park poster (PDF, 314KB).

More information

Email: ashburtonparkteam@croydon.gov.uk

Related link

Open House Festival 2026 website

October 2026

Activities to celebrate Black History Month.

Previous events

September 2025

100 years’ heritage event - open house week.

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We hosted over 100 people with free tours of the historic Ashburton Hall, Croydon Libraries hosted storytelling, Museum of Croydon led object handling, craft with Croydon Family Hubs and updates on the restoration project.

August 2025

100 years of Ashburton Park centenary event.

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Photos by Glenn Foster

We welcomed over 70 attendees of all ages, with local councillors, our friends from Mencap, Floating Hub’s Holiday club, the Wellderlies’ group and our Park partners - the Friends of Ashburton Park, Ashburton Park Petanque Club and the Ashburton Park Bowling Club.

We buried a time capsule with their contributions for park users to open in 2125. We enjoyed afternoon tea, played lawn games and got crafty with leaf printing as well as celebrating the dedication of our long-term volunteers Mary Leather and Mary Guruparan. We also celebrated the life of volunteer Helen Buckland who volunteered for many years in the park and local area, with a bench dedicated in her memory.

“Ashburton Park is one of Croydon’s jewels – a place of heritage, pride, and community spirit – and it’s exciting to see it enter its next century”- Mayor Jason Perry 

“The atmosphere was great! The children didn’t want to leave” -Community Hub leader 

July 2025

Staff recruited and project begins.

May 2025

Recruitment of project staff.

Get updates on our events

To receive updates on our events, and find out ways you can get involved, email us at ashburtonparkteam@croydon.gov.uk.

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This project is made possible thanks to National Lottery players

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