Hadleigh Park

The Hub Cafe is great. It is spacious with good wheelchair access. The atmosphere is friendly, the staff are great and we also chat with other visitors. We had a super lunch and really enjoyed the freshly made salad. Nice home made cake too. Parking used to be free for blue badge holders. For us, it cost £5.20 to park. The disabled toilet is not great for wheelchair users, the door is really heavy. For a wheelchair user on their own, this would be very difficult. We like visiting but frankly the parking charges are insulting. Wheelchair users have access to so few places.

We went to the mountain bike part of the country park to see the replica iron age roundhouse. They have a massive car park with a few tarmacadam disabled bays. Unfortunately these abut the deep shingle of the car park. As soon a the wheelchair came down the ramp from the car we were stuck and even with the winch struggled to get back into the car. We did drive across the car park to get near the roundhouse which is not on the shingle but the entrance gate was rather narrow and muddy so did not get out of the car. Very disappointing as you have to pay a minimum fee of £1.50 to park for one hour. Could not get across car park to access anything else but could see a small childrens play area.