A Walk Around the Town Part One
If you enter Newport Pagnell from the H3 Monks Way onto Marsh End Road on your right is the home of Newport Pagnell Town Football Club.
Changing Rooms and Clubhouse
The Pitch
The Stand
On the same site is the Newport Pagnell Tennis Club
Walking further around the site across the training pitches you will find the Cricket pitch
getting right to the back of the site there is the local skate park
Leaving the site at the back left hand corner there are a couple of houses and then an alleyway which runs down the side of the allotments. At the bottom of the alley is a bridge across the river. To the left of the bridge stands a stone block.
If you read the plaque on top of the block it tells how for many years this was the site where children where taught to swim.
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The text on the plaque reads Willen Road Bathing Place In this stretch of the river Lovat thousands of Newport Pagnell school children learned to swim, over a period of 60 years. They were encouraged by Mr Orson Bull and successive headmasters of the Bury Street schools.
They received a certificate and a silver threepenny piece on swimming across the river. Many progressed to the Newport Pagnell swimming club which won trophies in competition with London and Provincial clubs in the early 1900s. One of the members of the 1901 championship team was Harry Middleton. Who, after making his fortune in Canada, gave shares and money to build a new open air swimming pool in Tickford Street in 1957.
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To Cross The Bridge and carry on Click Here
