Parrswood Environmental Centre

The Parrs Wood Environmental Centre is on the outskirts of Didsbury, South Manchester. The site was formerly known as Parrs Wood Rural Studies Centre and was created by Manchester City Council in 1947 for school children from all over the city to visit regularly to learn about gardening and wildlife.  In 1990 the responsibility for running the Centre was handed over to a new voluntary group of Friends and in 2011 took on the new name of Parrs Wood Environmental Centre.

The site includes extensive gardens with an orchard, woodland, ponds and an old walled garden which is being brought back into use. It also features a Victorian hothouse that can produce pineapples and bananas.

The site is run by the Friends of Parrswood Rural Studies Centre. It borders on the Parrs Wood High School that makes extensive use of the site for education.

Details of how to get to the Centre are here.

This map from Parrs Wood High School shows the general location of the venue. The site lies behind the new Parrs Wood Entertainment complex, located on the left of the main A34 (Kingsway) traveling out of Manchester city centre which is about 5 miles away. Cheadle and the M60 motorway are nearby. Free parking is available.

The venue is a short walk from East Didsbury railway and Metrolink stations. Also from bus stops on bus routes 50, 142, 42, 42a, 45a from Manchester city centre.

A Google map is also available.

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