Truffet Park, Langley
Truffet Park
Bowness Road
Langley
Middleton M24 4WT
Open: 24 hours – 7 days a week
Park warden: 07527 385801
Friends of Truffet Park
Like other ‘friends of’ groups at other parks across the
borough, the Friends of Truffet Park are involved in helping to
improve its facilities and set up events to attract the community
to the area. To find out more call park warden on 07527
385801.
History
Truffet Park is the local park for the people of Langley, which
is located one mile north west of Middleton. It achieved Green Flag
status for the first time in 2009 after investment paved the way
for extensive improvements and ongoing maintenance.
First opened in 1966, the park features a number of recent
improvements and provides a community focal point for leisure,
recreation and relaxation.
Truffet Park was officially opened on Saturday the 9 July 1966
by the Mayor of Middleton, Councillor Alan Donner. The park was
named after Councillor Jim Truffet - a resident of the Langley
estate who had held the position of vice chair of the parks
committee and who had been a great advocate of a park on Langley.
As Alderman Chisholm, Chair of the Parks Committee said:
“Councillor Truffet always had the desire to provide this type of
facility pleasantly situated on the edge of the estate where he
lived.”
Truffet Park covers an area of 3.0 hectares (7.4 acres). Its
main function is to serve the local population as a site for
recreation and leisure. The bowling green is a key feature of the
site and attracts a considerable number of local residents and
visitors from further a field to take part in bowling for both
pleasure and competition. The park has the benefit of a new
circular footpath, which encompasses the new play area and provides
the opportunity for exercise and relaxation. The newly refurbished
events area provides a site for organised events and sport There
are also areas of trees and grassland as well as the more formal
and planted areas.
Facilities
- Herbaceous beds
- Shrub areas
- Sensory Garden
- Wooded area
- Grassland areas.
- Mini Arboretum
- LEAP standard play area.
- Multi use events area
- Tennis courts
- Car park
- Wetland and wildlife areas
- Wildlife walk
- Floodlit crown green bowling greens and pavilion.
- Toilets
- Circular footpath around the site.
- Site based park warden
- Site based maintenance staff
- Secure fully fenced site
How to get there
Directions from M60:
- Leave the M60 at junction 19 following the A576 towards
Middleton town centre for 1.5 miles
- At the first roundabout take the 3rd exit onto Middleton Way
A576 and travel 250 yards to the next roundabout
- Take the 2nd exit onto Oldham Road A664 travel for 300
yards
- At the next roundabout 1st exit continuing Assheaton Way for
300yards
- At the next roundabout take the 2nd exit travel for ¾ of a mile
firstly on Eastway which changes to Wood Street
- Turn Left at Bowness Road (signed for Truffet Park) and travel
for half a mile. Truffet Park is the first open space site on the
left hand side
Bus services
- 123 Manchester - Middleton - Langley (Circular every 10
minutes)
- 124 Middleton - Langley - Middleton - Manchester (Every 10
minutes)
- 125 Middleton - Rhodes - Birch – Langley (Circular every10
minutes)
- 156 Langley - Rhodes – Manchester (Every 30 minutes)