Your Green is Under Threat
Four years after it agreed to a 25 year arrangement for Harding’s Pits to be managed as a Doorstep Green, King’s Lynn borough council wants the land back.
Please help to save it. Click here to go to our petition page.
Go to the 'Fight for the Pits' page to read the latest on our fight to save Harding's Pits for the town.
Where is it?
Between the rivers Great Ouse and Nar, with the residential areas of Hillington Square to the north, The Friars to the east, South Lynn to the south and West Lynn and open country across the Ouse to the west.
Access is easy. There are no fences, stiles or gates. The only barriers are intended to prevent the entry of motor vehicles.
From the town centre look for the Saturday Market Place and the Church of St Margaret of Antioch, one of the two great churches of Lynn (the other is St Nicholas, the fishermen's church in the north of the town - both are well worth a visit).
Go down Church Street and Bridge Street, past the early 17th century Greenland Fishery
and then what used to be The Hulk public house and is now the Quaker Meeting House,
past the Whitefriars Gate
and turn right on to the pedestrian and cycle path which leads across the Nar Sluice bridge to South Lynn.
Or walk along the South Quay past the Green Quay Wash Interpretation Centre with its café
and follow the road round until you come to Bridge Street with the Greenland Fishery on the corner.
From Wisbech Road look for the sign on the north side for Harding's Way, 300 metres from the South Gates roundabout. You can also walk into the Green from both the town centre and South Lynn on the path which runs along the flood defence bank of the River Great Ouse.
Whose is it?
Resident or visitor...it's yours. Yours to walk your dog, fly your kite, to watch the birds, to sit in the summer sun or enjoy the clear air of a winter day.
The Green is owned by the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk and managed as a Doorstep Green on its behalf by the Harding's Pits Community Association Ltd (HPCA Ltd). The directors and management team are all local people; routine maintenance of the Green and litter control is carried out by volunteers and more help is always welcome.
Entry to the Green is free to all but donations towards the cost of management are invited. Please see the address of the HPCA Ltd. on the contacts page.
Help us to keep your Green free from litter and damage to wildlife, paths and seats.
