READERS have reacted to a suggestion that a city park could be renamed to honour the Queen.

The question was posed by St John’s councillor Richard Udall who received a suggestion from a resident that Worcester’s Cripplegate Park should be rechristened to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who died on September 8.

The name Cripplegate comes from an old English word which means “low opening in a fence or wall, to allow the passage of sheep from one field to another.”

Many readers of Worcester News questioned the need to change the name.

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Ali Taylor said: “What's the point when everyone would still call it Cripplegate? As for QE2, that's a ship!”

Andrew Smith said: “The fact that it still has this name means it has survived many monarch's deaths. We don't need to run out and rename everything after her.”

Cripplegate Park was originally created in the mid-1800s and remodelled in the 1930s with the new park opened in 1932 by the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VIII, when he visited Worcester to open the widened nearby bridge over the River Severn.

Other readers on the Worcester News Facebook page said the city could still pay tribute to the Queen without having to rename Cripplegate Park with many suggesting naming the new Kepax bridge after Britain’s longest-serving monarch.

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“Maybe not the right choice but I agree the city should do something along these lines,” Marc Ward said.

Alison Hodgeheg said: “Why not just create something in her memory instead?! People will just call it Cripplegate no matter what you rename it, because the name is ingrained.”

Charles Freeman added: “I agree with others here: leave Cripplegate as it is, but maybe erect a statue of her somewhere ... we have one of Victoria, so why not Elizabeth too?”

Georgina Pickett said: “No. But why not create a new park or green space in her majesty's honour?”

Julie-Anne Goode said: “I don’t think that’s a great idea. Isn’t a new bridge that’s costing millions be better named after her? Or something else that’s to celebrate her life?”