The park straddles the River Rea for 1.5 miles as it drains northwards across a flood plain from Selly Park through Edgbaston towards Digbeth.

The river, which is canalised, spills over into two lakes and several smaller pools.

On the east bank of the river, the park contains bowling greens, putting greens, tennis courts, the Sons of Rest Social Club, a Georgian stucco mansion known as Cannon Hill House and a reassembled Tudor inn called the Golden Lion that once stood in Digbeth.

Beyond the east bank, the terrain rises through woodland and meadows to Cannon Hill.

On the west bank of the river, the park contains the Midland Arts Centre, two playgrounds, a bowling pavilion, boathouse, toilets and car park.

The Birmingham Nature Centre is on the southern boundary.

The Park Ranger Service is headquartered at the information centre on Russell Road where there is a small car park.

The main car park is on Edgbaston Road, opposite the County Cricket Ground.

It was created in order to reduce housing density during the regeneration of Castle Vale in 2003 and occupies the former site of the Centre 8 tower block cluster.

The park contains formal gardens, playgrounds, conservation areas, multi-games areas, an events space and wildflower meadow.

The gardens contain four residential towers that overlook the canal.

Pope Benedict XVI held an open-air mass in Cofton Park on Sunday 19th September 2010.

Travellers camped at Cofton Park in August 2011; locals complained of fly tipping, including human excrement and truckloads of rubble (News Headlines 19/08/11).

It was donated for public use by the Birmingham Civic Society in 1920.

It is part of a 3.75 mile linear green space, known as the  Shire Country Park, that runs from Yardley Wood through Hall Green to Small Heath.

The reservoir was created by Thomas Telford in 1824-29; he dammed a stream by building a 330-metre-long earth embankment with a maximum height of 10 metres. The stream was diverted into a fishpond that Telford deepened and enlarged.

The resulting reservoir has a surface area of 80 acres and a maximum depth of 12 metres.

Water is released from the reservoir into the Icknield Port Loop of the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Canal by a winding gear that controls a sluice on the dam.

A second sluice releases water into the Engine Arm Branch of the same canal from where it can be pumped to the Smethwick Summit at the higher Wolverhampton Level.

The Birmingham Rowing Club, the Midland Sailing Club and a sea cadet centre are based at the reservoir which contains a marked course for sailing and windsurfing events.

It contains a listed Georgian mansion (circa 1750) that was once the ancestral home of the Lloyd banking family and which was built on the former site of a mediaeval farmhouse.

The park features meadows, hard courts, playgrounds, tree clusters and landscaped pathways.

It is a surviving remnant of Lilycroft Farm which was developed for housing in the 1960's.

The green, which has been partially landscaped, contains wetlands, woodlands, wildflower meadows and an events field whose centrepiece is the Millennium Flower Sculpture.

Fox Hollies Park is a 40 acre green space in the Fox Hollies area of south Birmingham.

It was formerly the grounds of Fox Hollies Hall: a mid-Victorian Italianate mansion that was demolished in 1937.

Fox Hollies Park contains meadows, wetlands, tree clusters, landscaped pathways, playgrounds and a fish pond.

The Westley Brook meanders through the park.

It is the former site of a mediaeval moated manor once owned by Thomas Boleyn and of which little remains apart from the outline of a grassed dry moat.

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