Archena Gardens
Archena Gardens
The relief road, St. Mary's Way, was constructed in the 1970s and widened in the 1980s, to enable the High Street to be pedestrianised. During the construction of the road, a new brick wall and metal railing park boundary was erected. The entrance to the lower park from Church Street is named Archena Gardens after Archena, a town located in the Murcia region of south-east Spain, with which Chesham was twinned in 1995. Archena Gardens is comprised of footpaths, a small lawned area and shrubs.
Current condition
The Gardens are currently being tidied up by the Friends of Lowndes Park during their monthly Sunday morning Working Parties.
News & Events
The Friends are moving the weekend working party to the second Sunday of the month and the next one will be on Sunday 12 February. We hope to be pruning roses, weeding the beds and then take a look to see if the snowdrops we have planted over the last few years are coming through. We meet at 10am in the Archena Garden which is next to the Temperance Hall in Church Street.
The Friends are hoping to plant around 30 native tree saplings in the Wildlife Area at their working party on Sunday 8 January. They have been donated by the 10th Chesham Guides and were given to them by the Woodland Trust. The varieties of tree include Holly, Wild Rose, Hawthron, Hazel and Dogwood.
We would like to thank Helena Mills who raised £570 for the Friends of Lowndes Park in memory of her good friend Ben Cargill. Over the course of the last summer she took part in not one but three triathlons. Please click on the title for more details and picture.
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