Local parks are important local amenities that both enhance our wellbeing and provide an important contribution to the environment, especially in urban areas. This article identifies ways in which you can explore your local park, an amenity that, is familiar to most children, within its historical perspective. It considers resources that you can use and teaching and learning approaches to support learning outside the classroom, together with ways in which your local park can be compared and contrasted with parks at different times in the past...