Contents Introduction …………………………………………2 Haringey Map ……………………………………4 Gallery ……………………………………………5 Circular Walk west of the Borough ………………6 Circular Walk in Wood Green area …………12 Parks & Green Spaces in West Haringey …14-15 Circular Walk Lea Valley and Paddock ………16 Railway Fields ……………………………………19 Circular Walk Finsbury Park and New River …20 Linear Walk Parkland Walk ……………………22 Linear Walk Tottenham Park Café Trail ………24 Alexandra Park …………………………………29 Greens and Commons …………………………30 Between Lordship Lane and Wood Green High Road ……………………………………31 Community Gardens …………………………32-33 Off the Beaten Track ……………………………34 Haringey Health Walks …………………………35 Blossom by the tennis courts in Downhills Park Parks Friends Groups ……………………………36 Introduction This walking book has been produced to to describe than others, but you will always be showcase many of the parks and green spaces in quite near to a road so you can’t get lost. Haringey and nearby. There are different benefits in doing the walks at The walks are designed to take you on a stroll specific times of year for instance, if you want to through a variety of green spaces and parks in see the rhododendrons in flower in May or different parts of Haringey. Some are linear and bluebells in the woods or baby birds on the some are circular. The times given for the walks water, or if you want a picnic, but most of the are approximate and are without stops or time walks are good at any time of year. We did the spent exploring the places you pass through, Western Circular Walk in torrential rain, but still which is recommended, and will be rewarding. enjoyed it, especially as we dived into one of the So you will need to take that into account. many cafés on our way! Most of the walks are easy walking, but some are There are more parks and green spaces in longer than others or have some steeper paths Haringey that are not included because they did and some are not wheelchair accessible because not fit easily into a walk and not because they are the paths are not surfaced and can get very not worth a visit! All parks are listed on the muddy after periods of rain or there are steps. Haringey Website: www.haringey.gov.uk . In the making of this book we have walked each We hope you will enjoy discovering route and have endeavoured to describe them as Haringey through its parks and green best we can. Some woodland routes are harder spaces! Rhododendrons in Alexandra Park 2 Haringey – A great place for walking This map of Haringey shows Gallery just how much green space there is to explore across the Borough Alexandra Palace from Priory Park Finsbury Park Coldfall Wood New River Path The Paddock Barratt Gardens Nightingale Gardens Downhills Park Friends Groups in Haringey There are 40+ Friends Groups active in parks and green spaces in Haringey. They do everything from clearing litter and conservation work to organising Most public green spaces in Haringey are managed by Haringey events, talks and walks. If you want to get information Council Parks Service. For more information about all parks in about a Friends Group near you then see: Haringey see Parks A-Z on www.haringey.gov.uk www.haringeyfriendsofparks.org.uk. Lordship Rec Highgate Wood Woodside Park Queen’s Wood 4 5 Circular Walk B u Wood Alexandra ck in Palace Station gh Green Tube A Circular Walk in the West of the Borough am R d d nRoa Taking in 2 public parks, woods, meadows, and wildlife nature reserves. Statio ay Boating e W Wood Green Lake alac ndra P Common Distance 7.45km (4.6miles) Time 2.5hrs Moderate Only parts of this walk are acces sible Alexa Nature Alexandra Pitch and Reserve Alexandra Park From the bus stop at Palace Putt Alexandra Palace Station walk Transport Links to the station and go over the This historic park includes Alexandra Palace overground Trees in Crouch End Open Space Alexandra Sports railway via the footbridge that Field woodland, open grassland, station can be reached from Park formal gardens, pitch and putt, leads you onto Bedford Road stations between Hertford North boating lake, cafés, skate park, and turn left there. This and Moorgate (via Finsbury The Park). There is no step free F y Grove y becomes the main road through o a e children’s playground, r a tis dw n access at this station. The W3 G a W a r o L the park, Alexandra Palace e r e e M c landscaped gardens, soft play n B l u bus goes there from Finsbury l P a R i sw l e o ll l a H e a Way. Walk a little way up the d l k i l a adventure playground and Tree l H l P g Park or Wood Green Tube or l H e l l i n l a w a e l i s r t road and pass a parking bay u w Top Adventure to entertain the Looking out across London from 184 from Wood Green, W s d h M u n g i M a d N and 2 rough roads on your left. Turnpike Lane or Bounds Green. n x kids! It also includes Alexandra Alexandra Park. e a Lane l l St James A k ’s Palace itself, see: Take the first small unsurfaced r 144 , W7 , 134 , 43 or 102 bus all a www.alexandrapalace.com , for path down to your left. Keep on the Palace’s Palm Court P go to Muswell Hill Broadway if Priory Road what is on offer. You can get this path with meadow on your entrance. You will get great you want to start this walk from some of the best views of left and it continues on into London views along this path. Parkland Walk North Section Cranley Gardens London (on a good day). woodland on your left and the Cross the road carefully at from the top of Muswell Hill (on Woodland Rise Priory pitch and putt on your right. the bus stop and then turn left. your right looking down the Hill). P Gardens ar Park Woodland k We start our walk at Alexandra Almost at the end of the Around the bend you will see Ro ens ad Palace Overground Station on pitch and putt the path divides the Grove Car Park. Turn right Highgate Onslow Gard MAP KEY Buckingham Road. You can and you take the right fork that before the steps to the car park Wood Walk Route e start at Wood Green Tube, heads steeply up to Alexandra along a narrow hedged path l a V Queen’s Wood Piccadilly Line, and walk to Palace. Below the road, take keeping the car park on your Railway For information about Alexandra Park d o Crouch end Alexandra Palace Station going the first surfaced path to the left left. Before a brick bridge o see the Friends of Alexandra Park website: W open Space Rivers up Station Road or get a W3 or and carry on walking parallel to leading to a park exit take a d www.friendsofalexandrapark.org/ a o Parks & R d 184 bus. Being a circular walk, the road. This path goes the path uphill on your left l s a You will find maps and information about l ’ o i en Wood R H e u l Q you can join the walk anywhere length of the Palace and takes following another side of the walks you can do around Alexandra Park. l Green spaces e w along the route. you back to the road opposite car park. s u ane 6 M L ill 7 Ar ood d’s H chw W Gardens her ay Priory Shep Ro ad This path takes you past the Highgate Take the third exit on the For information about Parkland Walk New Onslow Gardens Friends information centre on Cranley Gate Tube For information about Highgate Wood left, New Gate, leaving the For information about see the Friends of Parkland Walk website: Gate Muswell Hill Queen’s Wood your right, open on Sundays Road see the City of London website: wood at pedestrian lights https://www.parklandwalk.org.uk/ https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things- see the Friends of and first saturday of the month You will find maps and information about across Muswell Hill Road where Queen’s Wood D to-do/green-spaces/highgate-wood A 11-1pm. You will pass a small O you enter Queen’s Wood . Parkland walk and what trees and flowers R website: Y A café. Stay on this path and you you are likely to see. W www.fqw.org.uk/ H C Highgate Café and R e come to a covered bridge that A Once through the Cranley Gate Queen’s Wood l Wood Café & a You will find maps and V toilets toilets d takes you down and through a take the path to the left. This d o information about a o s o ’ R W n d e n l r u l Queen’s wood and tunnel under Muswell Hill, a Depending on the season you Info and ld o path runs along the edge of the Queen's Wood is an ancient i Football i r H h g l wildlife Hut C ay l busy main road. You will be in can see a variety of trees and and pl wood with houses visible on woodland, continuously e what you can do and w s cricket D u A see there.