Recreation Ground, Swanage

[1] As originally laid out, the recreation ground also included tennis courts and a bowling green.

[3] It is one of only four surviving MacFarlane 224s, the other three being in the Royal Pump Room Gardens in Leamington Spa, Fassnidge Park in Uxbridge and the Vine Cricket Ground in Sevenoaks.

[9] The war memorial was erected in 1920, and relocated within the recreation ground in 2014 in order to reduce the risk of it collapsing in a landslip.

[14] Trevor Chadwick was a schoolteacher in Swanage who, working with Sir Nicholas Winton, was responsible for rescuing 669 children from Prague on the kindertransport.

[16] A bronze sculpture of Chadwick with two children by local sculptor Moira Purver has been designed and will shortly (2021) be cast and then installed in the recreation ground.