Stevens Park - Quarry Bank

Stevens Park offers extensive recreational facilities and many areas of managed grass across its sweeping landscape. The park hosts spectacular views to surrounding areas and catches the stunning setting sun just perfectly.

Our facilities

Toilets and disabled access WC
Café and outdoor terrace
Multi-Use Games Area
Skatepark
Outdoor Gym
11-aside football pitch, with goals
Large areas of flat managed grass - ideal for team games
Wildflower areas
Skate Park
Children's Play Area
Tennis Courts x 2
Bandstand
Peace Memorial and Garden
'Spokes' cycle shop
'Twigs' plant sales nursery
Free car parking is available on the car park on the Thorns Road (A4036)

At approximately seven hectares the park has large areas of open flat grass, with smaller shaded and unshaded areas perfect for picnics and leisure activities. One of these large areas is utilised as a football pitch, by a variety of teams.

Dudley Council is nearing completion of a heritage lottery project which with Council funding secured almost £2 million investment in improvements to Tintern House and the park.

The Stevens Park Quarry Bank Restoration Project was funded by a Parks for People grant, made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund.

Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to entirely refurbish and extend Tintern House and carry out extensive improvements to the park.

Council funding also contributed to the project. Improvements include:

Restoring and extending Tintern House (formerly known as the White House) to create a community café, public toilets and meeting rooms
Working in partnership with the Emily Jordan Foundation, a charity working to support people with learning disabilities. The Emily Jordan Foundation are developing horticultural training opportunities, a bike recycling workshop as well as other opportunities to support people with learning disabilities to move closer towards work
Extensive improvements to the park including new footpaths, restoration of the Peace Memorial and Gardens, heritage restoration and bio diversity initiatives
Delivering a range of activities and events from the park to make the area more attractive and vibrant
Stakeholders and members of the public were involved in the ideas and proposals for the site. The Friends of Stevens Park Quarry Bank have been closely involved in the project since it began

The park is a great venue for community events; if you would like to use the park for your event please view event guidance and application.

The Friends of Stevens Park Quarry Bank are a community group who work to improve the park in various ways, including fundraising for new equipment, volunteering, and supporting events.

The Friends Group would welcome new members who are interested in organising events, helping at events, litter picking, gardening and much more.

Please contact them at fotpstevensparkqb@outlook.com, or if you would like to become a friend, please download and fill out the application form.

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Application form - become a friend of Stevens Park (PDF 79.65KB)

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Stevens Park, Quarry Bank Constitution (PDF 314.51KB)

Emily Jordan Foundation Projects

The Friends Group and Dudley Council work closely with the Emily Jordan Foundation Projects, a charity working to support people with learning disabilities.

For more information go to the Emily Jordan Foundation Projects website.

How to get here

The park is easily accessed and well served by public transport. Pedestrian gates are located centrally along Thorns Road and in the south-west corner with Thorns Road. Other pedestrian entrances are located on Park Road (next to Tintern House) and where Park Road joins Park Walk.

Tintern House is fully accessible with ramps, unisex disabled toilets and a lift to the first floor. Steep sections of the main avenue may prove challenging for solitary disabled users.

Public transport serves the site with the 276 bus route between Dudley’s central bus station and Stourbridge every 20-minutes from the main entrance gates on the Thorns Road. The nearest train stations are Lye, some 0.7 miles (less than a 15 minute walk) and Cradley Heath, 0.9 miles and less than 20 minutes’ walk. Both stations are on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line and provide direct access to central Birmingham.

The main car park is located on the Thorns Road and is accessed off the southbound carriageway of the A4036 dual carriageway. The postcode is: DY5 2HR. It is a combined pedestrian and vehicular entrance with parking for 26 free public spaces with six disabled spaces. There are 2 disabled spaces adjacent to Tintern House for access to Twigs Plant Nursery and the postcode is DY5 2HP. Please be courteous to our neighbours and do not block local roads.

We welcome the following activities:

Walking, jogging, informal games and kickabouts, use of the formal recreation facilities, visiting the play area, watching wildlife, walking your dog, sitting and watching the world go by and enjoying the scenery, responsible cycling (see the full Cycling Code of Conduct in the Activity Centre).

The following activities are not welcome in the park:

Unauthorised use of motor vehicles, use of drugs and drinking of alcohol, vandalism or damage to the park, its facilities and wildlife, violent or threatening behaviour, fly tipping, dropping of litter, lighting fires or dog fouling, criminal activity.

If you witness any of these or other undesirable activities you can report them by calling the Police on 101 or contact Dudley Council Plus. In an emergency contact the Police on 999.