Amesbury Town Council

Lords Walk is open to the public daily, except for Christmas Day.  It is a beautiful, relaxing place to walk, taking you along the river path and up to the grassed walk lined with lime trees, with occasional opportunities to sit and contemplate!

Work has recently taken place by Natural England on the riverbed, to ensure a lasting, healthy habitat for the fish and other creatures living in this section of the River Avon.  Information boards are situated both along Lords Walk and at Queensberry Bridge, on the road to West Amesbury. 

Access along the river path is occasionally hampered by flooding during the winter months, but this is soon to be rectified by the construction of a small footbridge.  Poplar trees were felled in 2008/09, having reached the end of their natural life.  It is hoped to make some of these into seats along the lower path. 

Lord's Walk was an avenue planted by Lord Carleton (1676-1720) and was formerly known as Lord Carleton's Walk.  The Avenue was the formal approach to Kent House, itself the gatehouse to Amesbury Abbey estate (Kent House is the one at the top of the hill between Countess Roundabout and Amesbury, opposite the top entrance to Lord's Walk, Diana House is the one by the river opposite the lower entrance to Lord's Walk).  The lower section of Lord's Walk (alongside the river) is probably tagged on to the park and wasn't part of the Avenue.

 Extract from the original deeds:

 First part conveyed to Amesbury Parish Council by Sir Philip Antrobus 18th September 1950 for the sum of £600.00.

 Second part conveyed to Amesbury Parish Council by Lincoln College, Oxford 25th May 1978 for the sum of £3500.00.