Facilities for Youth - The Skate Park

One of the most significant facilities to have been provided in recent times for young people locally was completed and formally opened in 2007. This is the magnificent new skate park constructed on land close to Cold Knap, planned and project-managed by Mrs Gaynor Taylor, mother of former European in-line skating champion Richard Taylor. Richard was tragically killed in a freak accident near his home in 2004, aged just 23. This new facility is a worthy and lasting legacy to a talented young man, and speaks volumes for his parents and his former peers from all over the UK.