High Woods Country Park is a park in Colchester, Essex. It includes a children's play area and a visitor's centre selling refreshments, alongside natural marshes, lakes and woods. The park also contains a public garden used to grow vegetables.
History The land that now forms High Woods was once part of the Royal Forest of Kingswood, a medieval hunting forest. In 1976, following a proposal to build a housing development adjacent to what would become the park, the Colchester City Council acquired a piece of land known as the "southern slopes" that was eventually amalgamated into the park boundaries. The park was opened to the public in 1987 after Colchester Borough Council acquired the land, with the site being converted to a country park, preventing further development. In December 2024, the Colchester City Council completed a £130,000 playground within the park, however it received criticism for being labelled as "accessible".
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