Stanley Park is extremely popular in the summer months where families come to picnic and spend time enjoying the sunshine. The park can be entered from the road that leads to the Alverbank Hotel. Other entrances are from Western Way and Gomer Lane. It is a large open park of grass and flower beds with one path, that leading to Gomer Lane, a woodland walk. There is a walled garden, opened in 1971, named in honour of Alderman Osborn who had been responsible for the design and layout of the Borough’s public gardens and the provision of flower beds at roadsides and street corners.
Formerly the grounds to Lord Ashburton’s Bay House, Stanley Park was bought by Gosport Borough Council in 1948, together with Alver House. The park was part of the grounds of Bay House sold by a descendent of Lord Ashburton (Lt.-Col. Ronald Francis Assheton Sloane-Stanley J.P. (1867-1948)) to Gosport Borough Council in 1946 and officially opened on 29 March 1947.
Osborne Gardens