Dyke Road Park

Dyke road park isn’t the most remarkable park, but there is something about its small size and view of the sea that lends it charm, and despite being a little constricted, it offers many facilities. For the locals, especially if you have a dog or children, this park is invaluable to have on your doorstep. The council are currently working on a new play park for tots and there are plenty of summer activities to get involved in. Alternatively it’s a pretty place for a picnic and picturesque to walk of that Sunday lunch in the Autumn.

Dyke Road Park is a spacious patch of greenery in which to set the kids loose after visiting the Booth Museum, strike up a game of football, or just run riot for an hour or so. The Puritan of the Brighton parks, it is very sparsely adorned, leaving as much to grassland as possible. Bordered on one side by a wall and on the others by roads, for the most part it requires input on the part of the wanderer to make it something interesting. There are some agreeable little cultivated patches, such as the small network of paths bordering Dyke Road where the pram-​pushing ladies congregate and the schoolchildren frolic on their lunch hours, but mostly it’s a blank canvas on which you may be free. There’s room for several consecutive games of rounders, with fielders and spectators. The only downside to this is trying to find a relatively flat patch, but it’s possible with patience, and determination (wait for the footballers to finish, then move in on their still-​warm territory). The café is surprisingly pleasant, albeit a shade overpriced, and is definitely a better café-​in-​the-​park than the Preston Park alternative. Verdant, spacious and a pleasant escape from the narrow streets of town, come here to feed your vague agoraphilia and stretch out a bit.

This park isn’t huge put it’s a great resource if you live near this end of town, which although central is 30 mins away from the beach. There’s space enough for games and bbqs in the summer, as well as a café, a pretty small rose garden, a football pitch, bowling green and tennis courts. You’ll also get a great view of the sea from here. It doesn’t seem to be too well known as when I lived nearby I’d often head to the park to read in the hot summer and it’d be really peaceful save the odd jogger and dog walker.

Gorgeous Park. Sit watch Tennis, smell the roses, wonder around the gardens. The café is lovely, the staff are very sweet and efficient. Fresh food, clean tables/​tableware, and friendly service. Recommended for a Sunday afternoon retreat from the busy town centre.

This is a gorgeous park — heaven sent if you want to get out of Brighton centre, but don’t want to go home yet. Its like going back in time a little bit, especially with the café there, which is lovely.
One very special thing is that the park is very high up — you can have a fantastic view of the sea on the horizon, in some places at least.
Brighton has a couple of wonderful cafes in parks, and this is one of them. And because of the number of apartments round here, its very well used by mums and children, as opposed to being merely another hangout for hoodies, who I’ve never seen there.
Really lovely, and highly recommended.

I love the roses but most of all I love the café. The best breakfast by far around. Lovely staff who can’t do enough for you and the full English is to die for. All the ingredients in the breakfast of a truckers café but instead of dirty artic lorries you can gaze out on the multitude of floral arrangements so loveingly planted. To the right you have the tennis courst and after licking your plate clean have a meander round the flower beds as your children gamble round the childrens play area to your left. Then go back and eat another breakfast again. Go on you know you want to.

This is a small but attractive park north of Seven Dials, with formal terraces, a children’s play area, soccer pitch, bowling green and 6 tennis courts, as well as public toilets.
On the upper terrace, with views towards the sea, is a small but well-​known (and recommended) café, serving hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, baguettes, light meals, snacks, cakes and ice-​creams. This is open Monday-​Friday 9−18h and on Saturday and Sunday 10−18h. (Contact details: (1 273) 554 441).
The park was established in 1924, having formerly been an area of market gardens and allotments. The central area has formal gardens with a geometrical layout, defined by clipped Yew hedges, as well as ornamental shrubberies and herbaceous borders, and is popular place for pensioners especially to sit and enjoy the summer sun in a quiet, sheltered spot. The café is also a great place to stop when it’s cold, as it has great views and serves great hot chocolate!
The park is on the 27 bus route into Brighton.