Sports, Recreation and Entertainment
Oak Park is a recreation center in Walsall Wood consisting of two swimming pools, an astro-turf football pitch, and other sporting facilities. Walsall Wood F.C. is a football club competing in the Midland Combination Premier Division. They play their home games at their ground located at Oak Park.
Walsall Wood also has a high number of pubs per people. Including The Drunken Duck located on Walsall Wood High Street with its large Beer Garden at the rear. Next door to the long established Barbour shop ran by "Mad Trev". Other pubs include The Boatman's Rest, The Anchor, The Royal Exchange and Brickmakers Arms
There is an on-site KFC restaurant located right next to the parking of the facility. Over the road from Oak Park is a Fitness First gym, and several shops including a Tesco Express, a Co-Operative Supermarket opening in 2012 (This has been delayed until Spring 2013) a fish and chip shop, Newsagents and more recently an Indian Restaurant.
Walsall Wood library is located in the former Neighborhood Office building at the junction of Coppice Road and High Street. There has been talks to move this to Oak Park Leisure Center if planning approval is given for it's re-development. The site of the former library building on Lichfield Road is also undergoing re-development. Plans have been passed to turn this into a car showroom. Completion dates are not yet available.
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