Alexandra Gardens

Royal Windsor Wheel

Saturday 1st May - Sunday 19th September 2010

For further information or to purchase tickets
please see The Royal Windsor Wheel website

Entrance from Goswell Road or Barry Avenue
Multimap link showing location of Alexandra Gardens

In June 2009 The Dyson Memorial Fountain (which had been moved from its Barry Avenue location) was extensively refurbished and now stands in the south-east corner by the Goswell Road entrance of the Park. The Memorial, in the form of a drinking fountain, commemorates Thomas Dyson who founded 'Dyson and Sons', pianoforte dealers of Thames Street in 1865 and who became Mayor
in1890. Thomas Dyson actively promoted improvements in the town, such as the construction of The Promenade.

Plans to create a riverside garden in this area date from 1893 although the possibilities must have been discussed for some years prior to this, as in 1895, land had been purchased, and by 1902 the gardens were sufficiently complete to permit the planting of a London Plane tree in August 1902 to celebrate the Coronation of Edward VII and his Queen, Alexandra.

A bandstand was erected and the band of the Royal Horse Guards played there on Wednesdays from 3pm to 5pm. [Source: The Story of Windsor. Maurice Bond. Local Heritage Books.]

Size: 28,497 sq m/ 2.8 hectares. A walk around the perimeter of this park will contribute 1,200 steps to the advised 10,000 daily steps recommended to improve fitness.

Facilities:

Sun Dial Feature - to tell the time stand on the present month in the middle of the sundial circle and your shadow will be cast on either GMT or British Summer Time.

Public toilets can be found in the adjacent Visitor Centre.

Some of the annual events that take place in the Gardens include:

• Royal Windsor Wheel
• Mid Summer Fayre
• Windsor Triathlon
• Finish of charity bike ride
• Extreme Motion - skate & cycle hire, mini golf, bungee trampoline

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