Sutton Park is not just another park. It is a nature reserve which consists of woodland, heathland and wetland. Plentiful in water, a variety of plant life and tree specimens grow here. Sutton park covers an area of some 2,400 acres.

Henry VIII used Sutton Park as one of his favourite hunting parks and settlements have been here from much earlier times. The park was used by the military in the first and second world war for training purposes. There was even a prisoner of war camp here. Sutton Park is a National Nature Reserve under the management of the Birmingham City Council.

The park handles large numbers of visitors especially in the summer months. It also caters for a wide range of leisure pursuits from model aircraft flying, kite flying clubs to joggers and cyclists as well as families who just love to visit and picnic within the grounds. There is a visitor centre, a restaurant by the lake, a nearby golf course and plenty of open space and fresh air.

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