TAVISTOCK Meadows is in the running to be crowned UK’s Best Park 2019 — but it needs your votes to help it beat the competition.

The popular park has has been nominated in the Fields in Trust’s UK’s Best Park 2019 award, along with 363 others, including 27 from the South West.

Fields in Trust launched a Summer of Parks celebration and has been championing the nation’s parks and green spaces. An all time high number of nominations were received this year and since voting opened an unprecedented number of votes have been cast — more than 25,000.

A spokesperson for Fields in Trust said: ‘With this backdrop of the love communities across the country are showing for their local parks and green spaces this summer, the UK’s Best Park 2019 award will not just be showcasing the parks to receive the highest vote tallies in each home nation. Each park to place in the top 20 per cent of the total nominations will receive “Much Loved” status and receive a certificate saying that.’

Voting for the UK’s Best Park 2019 will close next week, on Monday, August 19 at noon.

Representatives of Fields in Trust will journey around the UK highlighting and celebrating the spaces in each location once the regional winners have been announced. They will visit the South West on Friday, August 23. The four home nation winners will provide the shortlist for the overall winner of UK’s Best Park 2019, which will be announced at the conclusion of the Summer of Parks on Thursday, September 12.