Ryton Pools Country Park

[1] Much more recently the park was a set of fields until 1965 when the land was purchased and used as a landfill site for the nearby towns of Leamington Spa, Rugby and Coventry.Waste was dumped there for 27 years until 1992 when work started on developing part of the site into a country park, which included the flooding of the pits.In the late 1990s the remainder of the landfill site was filled in and new pools were created, as well as the provision of several portable metal cabins to act as information centres.Facilities at the park include a visitor centre/cafe and gift shop, two children's play areas for different ages of children, a bird hide, a cycle hire centre, miles of pathed and unpathed walks, and fishing facilities and a miniature railway run by the Coventry Model Engineering Society.Ryton Wood, situated next to the country park, is 94 hectares (230 acres) of oak woodland which is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and owned by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
One of the pools and one of the car parks at Ryton Pools
Photo of one of the pools from the top of a high bank on one side of the pool
A shale path in the park
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