The town has cycle ways away from traffic, parks, gardens, entertainment and leisure centres, and shopping areas in the town centre and in the neighbourhood areas around.
Old Harlow is just to the east of the town centre and has the Victoria Hall, a former church with a variety of events from traditional theatre through adaptations of fiction to musicals, mostly by members of the community.
Parndon Wood Nature Reserve, Parndon Wood Road on the southern outskirts of Harlow, has woods trails and a observation hide, conservation centre with toilets, meeting room, laboratory, leaflets, displays and a reference library.
Harlow Town Park a 164-acre town park with river walks, views and a number of attractions include music events, and the Harlow Town Show in the summer, and the annual fireworks display in November. Pets' Corner and adventure playground.You can contact us at harlowonline@mail.com
Community Notice Soundings is a free, impartial and editorially independent monthly information magazine in audio for anyone in the United Kingdom who is blind or partially sighted - whether or not they are registered as such. Soundings information is available on audio CD, on cassette and here on the Internet. www.soundings.orgwww.childline.org.uk Call 0800 1111 is especially for children and young people to call and talk about any problemwww.samaritans.org.uk Call 0845 7 90 90 90 The Samaritans are a very well known volunteer based group you can call if you're depressed or need someone to talk to. 
