HONITON MILLENNIUM GREEN

The development of the Honiton Millennium Green, administered by trustees, was the activity chosen by Honiton organisations to commemorate the Millennium. The Green is one of at least 250 Greens that were provided by the Millennium Commission via the Countryside Agency's Breathing Spaces project. 

Honiton's Millennium Green, The Josephine Wagstaff Meadow, is situated in Parsonage Lane and there is also a pedestrian entrance from Public Footpath No. 8, running between the Pine Park Road railway bridge and Parsonage Lane. The Higher Glen Victorian water gardens, closed on safety grounds and awaiting restoration, are on the other side of that footpath.

Honiton Millennium Green - The Josephine Wagstaff Meadow

There are seats, a surfaced pathway and in part a park-like atmosphere but the Green also has areas that have a deliberate policy of lower intervention to encourage wildlife.

The Green forms part of the valley of the Glen Stream providing a green corridor from close to the railway station, a few minutes walk from the town centre, to countryside in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a short distance further along Parsonage Lane.

Access: Parsonage Lane is no longer a through public road but it does provide a through leisure route for non-motorised highway use between Pine Park Road and Lower Marlpits Hill. It provides together with Higher Brand Lane, a much longer leisure route on foot including the permissive paths to Roundball Hill and Wood. The path running through the Green provides a means of bypassing the kissing gate where the public footpath joins Parsonage Lane. It is recognised that this heritage structure is a barrier for some residents.

The Honiton Millennium Green was registered as a BBC Breathing Place in September 2009 and has a website (please see Useful Links on this website).