FIELDS WE PROTECT

Halstead Public Gardens are formally laid out, landscaped in a Victorian fashion and incorporate a variety of borders and traditional park features. The gardens were designed by TW Sanders FRHS FNAGA and the design incorporated various trees, shrubs and flower borders along with shelters, benches, a bandstand, pond and a Victorian drinking fountain. The park contains a range of well-preserved features from the early days and it fulfils an important role as a major open space with easy access from the town. It is highly valued by the community as an attractive open space and a link to the past.

The Gardens are a memorial to those from the town who have fallen in conflict. They are the final point on the annual Remembrance Parade and are the location for the Remembrance Service each year as well as having been used for other centenary commemoration events. A formal World War II memorial listing 37 names is also located in the space.