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Western Park is a park and surrounding suburb located in West End of Leicester.

The park itself was bought for £30,000 in 1897 and at 178 acres is the biggest in Leicester. While the park has a "blend of meadows, mature woods and hedgerows" the park also contains a large number of sporting facilities including a bmx track, a skate ramp, 2 Bowling greens, 5 Football pitches, 6 Cricket pitches (all with associated changing facilities) and 6 Tennis courts. Until the 1950s the Park's tennis courts, then located to the far West of the Park, were the home of Westcotes Church Tennis Club and then Westfields Lawn Tennis Club. The club has now moved to a site on the nearby Eastfield Road, the courts on Western Park now being open to the public.

The park is also home to Groundworks Leicester & Leicestershire and the associated Eco House. This show house demonstrates ways of making your home more environmentally friendly is open for the public and holds one-off events as well as trips from local schools. Formerly run by 'Environ', the house and the surrounding recycling centre is now part of the larger Groundwork UK network.

The park is also home to a voluntary group, The Friends of Western Park, who work with the city council in an attempt to "improve the park for everyone"

The area of Leicester sharing the park's name is a generally affluent area to the South and East of the park. As well as the park itself, the suburb also contains Dovelands Primary School which caters for 450 4-11 year olds as well as a small additional set of nursery school children, St. Anne's Parish Church , and the aforementioned Westfields Tennis Club; a floodlit four court club which caters to both children and adults from the local area and beyond.