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Introduction …………………………………………2 Haringey Map ……………………………………4 Gallery ……………………………………………5 Circular Walk west of the Borough ………………6 Circular Walk in area …………12 Parks & Green Spaces in West Haringey …14-15 Circular Walk and Paddock ………16 ……………………………………19 Circular Walk Park and …20 Linear Walk ……………………22 Linear Walk 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 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 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 Wood 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 Station walk Transport Links to the station and go over the This historic park includes Alexandra Palace overground Trees in 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 North boating lake, cafés, skate park, and turn left there. This and (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 landscaped gardens, soft play e M c 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 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 . 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 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

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Queen’s Wood 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 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 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:

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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. wildflowers. O your left. Ignore any signs wooded since at least AD M the Northern part of Parkland field R

Y A Walk , a long strip of land that At the end of the Parkland W further on to the café and toilets 1600. The wood principally H Highgate Wood C R Que d was once partly a railway and Walk you will go under a A to the right unless you want to consists of hornbeams and ens Wood Roa is now kept as a nature reserve. bridge and up onto Muswell visit them. oaks. A wide variety of birds Turn off here for Crouch End Open Space and Hill Road. You will see the playing fields Parkland Walk ornate metal gates to Highgate Queen’s Wood Wood (Cranley Gate) on your This northern section of the right just before a row of shops. Parkland Walk nature reserve is Enter the wood here. live in the wood. This is also Road. The path bends up to the only 750 metres long and ends where the Moselle, Haringey’s road on your right. Emerging at at Cranley Gardens where it Highgate Wood hidden river, has its source. the road, you will see a small meets Muswell Hill Road. This part of the walk will not path across from you which you Highgate wood is an ancient be good for wheelchair users or take. This widens out and bends woodland. It is a haven for those with mobility problems as off to the left and becomes wildlife, with many accessible some of the paths are quite steps. At the bottom of the steps woodland trails. There is a steep, uneven or cut into steps. you come to a junction with a sports ground where formal You will see the Café on low wall to your right. Turn left cricket and informal picnics and your left and take the right fork here and take the small ball games can be enjoyed and of the 2 paths ahead, which is unsurfaced path towards a also a well equipped children’s part of the Capital Ring. Stay metal gate. Through the gate playground. There is also a on this path, passing a small the path runs through woodland good café with toilets and an pond on your right. You come between backs of houses and The Parkland Walk at the Northern information hut with leaflets and to a sign post and go straight allotments. At the end of this end near Muswell Hill trail guides nearby. Lush green trees in Highgate Wood Wildlife pond in Queen’s Wood. on signposted Queens Wood path turn left and you will soon 8 9 see a notice board for Crouch cricket clubs on either side. This End Open Space by a metal path joins up with another path gate which you go through. at the junction with Park Road. Carefully cross Park Road Crouch End Open and walk up Park Avenue Space South. At no. 82 on your right you will see an alley way that This area of Grade 1 ecological leads to the end of Abbeville importance is a mix of Road where there is the woodland, meadow, allotments entrance to Priory Park . and playing fields. Take the path straight on, Priory Park named meadow path on the notice board. You will soon Priory Park has some stunning enter a meadow and carry plane tree avenues, a quiet straight on through it. You re- Philosopher’s Garden to sit in enter woodland beyond it and and a former bowls pavillion The St Paul’s Fountain in the formal gardens in Priory Park carry on down a path. At the where events are held . end of this path you turn left. Enter Priory Park and walk take the first turning on the Exit into a carparking area on straight on past the children’s right, Nightingale Lane. Walk The Friends Groups in both these green your right and continue on a playground. At the end of this the whole length of the road spaces have been established for many rough road with tennis and path is a café (with toilets) and and you will see Alexandra years and do lots of work to improve, maintain and develop their spaces. paddling pool ahead of you Park ahead. Turn right onto and tennis courts to the left. Newland Road and walk along For information about Crouch End Open Turn right at the café and then a the edge of the sports field. At Space see: little way along take a sharp left the end of the field take a http://www.crouchendopenspace.org and left again and walk through surfaced path back into the For dates of volunteer work days if you the ornamental garden. It has a park. This runs along the nature want to help with conservation work. large ornate fountain, originally reserve on your right which you For information about Priory Park see: from the churchyard of St Pauls could explore. This path joins a http://www.fopp-n8.org.uk/ Cathedral . This path takes you rough road that takes you back You will information on events in the park, out onto Priory Road. to the parking bay where you future projects the Friends are planning The lush summer meadow of Crouch Turn left at Priory Road and turn right to Alexandra Palace and how to join the Friends Keeper’s Cottage in Highgate Wood End Open Space cross via the lights. Turn left and Station on Bedford Road. 10 Circular Walk A Circular Walk in the Wood Green Area

Taking in public parks, and green walkways. All parts of this walk are accessible. You can bypass Woodside the green field at Wood Green Common by walking Park Distance 3.3km (2miles) Time 45minutes Easy past it on station road. Truro Road Finsbury We start and end this walk at Nightingale path through another strip of White Hart Gardens . green space between the backs Lane Rec Gardens . From the Tube cross the busy of houses until you reach Trees in Nightingale Gardens Nightingale Road. High Road to Station Road. This is a thin strip of ornamental Walk up Station Road and green space with trees, shrubs cross over at the first pedestrian Transport Links and flowers in summer. Finsbury Gardens lights. Keep walking in the Follow the path through the Wood Green is on the Piccadilly same direction and cross over Line. There are several bus routes middle of the space until you Cross Nightingale Road and that pass through or terminate T the road when you come to a rini Pergola in Barratt Gardens meet Bounds Green Road you will enter Finsbury there. 29 and 141 from Manor ty Lane Gar Hart mini roundabout and enter hite MAP KEY where you turn left. You will see Gardens, a small green space House, 230 and W4 from s W t s n park gate. This is Wood Green n B e , 221 or 184 ou c Walk Route crossing. You can see a very a red, flint Church at Braemar with a children’s play area and e nd s e d s G Crescent r Common/Barratt Gardens . r r from Bounds Green, 67 from ee C a short exposed section of the Avenue. Go across Bounds some fun wooden animal n t Parks & R Gardens r G o

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e u New River . Turn left after the Green Road via pedestrian t sculptures. l Green. S a Green spaces Wood Green crossing, cut across a green lights and take a path across g Walk straight through the n i t and cross Park Avenue via Trinity Gardens and Trinity park and then turn right at Truro h Common (Barratt g i H another pedestrian crossing. Road. Keep straight on along a N Road. Stay on this road and ig Gardens) h For information about local groups in e R Walk straight across the you will eventually reach the u n o these parks: e a green space, Avenue Gardens , v d High Road. Turn right then cross Avenue A Wood Green Nightingale Gardens rk a This is a small green space with and then take the path to the at the pedestrian lights. You will Gardens P Tube 07908 164105 a beautiful brick pergola with right before the road which is then see the entrance to another e Avenue Gardens/Wood Green Common Lan part of the New River Path and ship wisteria in the spring/summer. park in front of you. [email protected] Lord Walk through the pergola straight on is Nightingale Finsbury Gardens Sta oad W tion R n R o . Before this you may oad tio o and turn right across the green Gardens Woodside Park www.bowespark.org.uk Sta d

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Go through the play area and Dorset Road from Avenue Woodside Park is a medium www.facebook.com/Friends-of-Woodside- H Common ig h Park-219106644917319 out to Station Road. Turn left Gardens to see some lovely Wooden sculpture – Finsbury sized park with a dip in the R o a and cross via the pedestrian cottages. Gardens middle, housing children’s play d Crescent Gardens in Wood Green 12 13 White Hart Lane Until the early 20th century prevented grazing animals from Parks and Green Spaces in West Haringey Transport Links Rec Coldfall Wood covered more the surrounding than twice its current extent, Common and Horseshoe 234 bus from Muswell Hill and a This is a large recreation Albert Road reaching south to the houses Farm (as they then were) from short walk up Everington Road ground for which, as we go to bordering . The entering the wood. 134 or 43 bus from Muswell Hill Recreation Ground or Highgate and walk up Wilton print, Haringey Council are southern section was felled and One stream flows North Road and Everington Road working on a new master plan. Walters who sculpted the statue partially excavated for gravel, through the wood, creating a Carry on straight along the of Nelson Mandela in before being used for seasonal pond before draining path through the park and then . Oliver residential development and beneath the Playing Fields and take a right fork that skirts a schools. eventually joining . For information about Coldfall Wood Tambo was a leader of the see: www.coldfallwoods.co.uk disused paddling pool. Exit the Council purchased The Friends of Coldfall African National Find out about conservation work days or park. Turn right and follow Congress during Coldfall Wood in 1930 and the Wood organise walks, nature special interest walks and talks Woodside Park White Hart Lane along the the apartheid years remaining section is now talks and conservation work. perimeter of the park until you in South Africa who owned and managed by the and kick about area. The reach some buildings and London Borough of Haringey was exiled from his Seasonal Friends of Woodside Park hold pedestrian lights where you with much help from The Muswell Hill Albert Road Recreation Ground native country, Friends Pond Coldfall Wood a regular Jazz Festival there in cross. Turn right and continue provides a wide range of coming to live near of Coldfall Wood . Playing Fields and B late summer. up White Hart Lane until you sporting and recreational The Wood is dominated by a the park where his r r Coldfall St Pancras e Walk diagonally acoss the reach a left fork, Stuart facilities. oak standards and also n n children played. w g Cemetery a e L r To 234 bus to

park above the play area and Crescent. Cross the road to the Whether you fancy a game contains hornbeams, Hazel, ’s R r o e a Muswell Hill Wood v d past a small former bowling green opposite, Crescent of tennis or , are Beech, Mountain ash and Wild o Transport Links L club building, now used as a Gardens . Take the path round interested in bowls, or simply Service Trees. n Road eringto nursery. After the building your the green to the left. You will be want to play a game of 184 bus from Bounds Green or Coldfall Wood is an ancient Areas of coppicing in the Ev Wood Green/Turnpike Lane path forks off to the right. Stay walking parallel to the High football, Albert Road Recreation wood in Muswell Hill, N10 wood have been extended to 102 bus from Muswell Hill or Ancient Coldfall on this path and keep right Road. Cross over Ewart Grove Ground has all you need. 1NT. It covers an area increase levels of light and Bounds Green. ditch and Primary along the perimeter of the park. and the path continues through There is also a good ofapproximately 14 hectares create more welcoming It is a short walk from Bounds bank School You will reach a road, Earlham this formal strip of land. You children’s playground and some Green Tube, , and is presently surrounded by entrances to the wood, as well Grove, where you turn left and will pass the back of a 1st lovely trees and flowers. along Durnsford Rd (N22 7XL) allotments, the St. Pancras and as enhancing the biodiversity almost immediately right along World War memorial which The Pavillion Café provides Islington Cemetery, and value of the wood. Allotments Newnham Road which goes you may want to go round and meals and snacks and also residential roads. It is the site of The western and northern past Earlham Primary School. see. When you leave this green hosts activities and is the base For information about Albert Rec see the the discoveries which first led to boundaries are demarcated by Friends of Albert Road Recreation Ground Turn down a small passage on space you will be on the High the recognition that glaciation Creighton Avenue for the Friends of Albert Rec . www.farrg.org.uk , or psandc.co.uk for the remains of an ancient your left and this takes you into Road and a very short walk You can also see the bust of information on events at the Pavillion Café had once reached the south of woodbank with a ditch on the White Hart Lane Rec. back to Wood Green Tube. Oliver Tambo, sculpted by Ian . outer side. This would have 14 15 Circular Walk ay W d ea . m er Pymmes Brook, , Marshes and the Paddock at Transport Links MAP KEY W Stonebridge Walk Route Lock Taking in rivers, a nature reserve and marsh meadows Tottenham Hale is on the . There is a bus station outside Railway Distance 4km (2.5miles) Time 1 hour Easy Accessibility could be difficult in wet weather the Station. You can get 41 bus from Turnpike Lane or Crouch Rivers End, W4 , 123 or 230 from Parks & We start and end this walk at Cross Pymmes Brook and you soon you will see the gate to Wood Green and Turnpike Lane Tottenham Hale tube station on will see Waterside Café on your The Paddock on your left. or Tottenham Green. Green spaces the Victoria Line. From the tube left, and Stonebridge Lock to . or bus, exit the bus station into your right. The Paddock Ferry Lane and turn left up the For information about the area y hill over the railway. Cross over a Entrance to the Paddock see the Friends of Tottenham Marshes W The Paddock is a Community d a Mill Mead Way via traffic lights website: www.tottenhammarshes.org for d e Nature Reserve which has been a m o r Lockwood and almost immediately go information on walks and conservation R e t developed as a haven for birds, w a Walk past the lock and stay on e activities i W Reservoir through a metal gate on your V k the towpath with the Lee trees, flowers and nature lovers. r left which takes you up the a Down Lane Navigation on your left and you The area is now managed by You can contact the Friends of the Paddock P Park k Pymmes Brook . The Brook will o an active friends group who are o will see painted narrow boats at: [email protected] r B be on your right along with a s View from Stonebridge Lock moored on both sides of the working to improve it. e Lea Valley information board. m a e m Once inside The Paddock L river. You are now walking y P r e v parallel to the way you came you will see a small wildlife C d i hes a tnut Ro y R Tottenham ad o a R Pymmes Brook pond on your left. Keep on past W back towards Ferry Lane again. y e d l a Marshes h e When you reach the Ferry the pond and stay on the path s H A m a r le e t n R y The Pymmes Brook is a tributary Lane exit from the river you in front of you which runs T o a io y h ad a t a W a W e Tottenham W t g en H i of the River Lea which it joins at At the end of the allotments, the have to go up a fairly steep around the perimeter of The m d v u a a a n e o le Hale N M M Tottenham Hale. It starts in path enters Tottenham Marshes . cobbled ramp (this could be Paddock . At one point the path e ll e i L , Barnet. This is large area of grassland, difficult for wheelchair users) to passes by a picnic area in a M The Walk along the towpath by wildflower meadows and the road and then turn left. (If dip on your left. The path Ferry Lane Paddock

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r i v B F allotments on your left, one of will soon reach a picnic area reach Markfield Park where Turn right on to Ferry Lane and e err The Paddock r y d L ntill Roa L an A e e which is run by Living Under with a couple of public art there is another café and retrace your steps to Tottenham a One Sun , a local charity and installations where you turn toilets.) Carry on up Ferry Lane Hale crossing over Mill Mead community organisation. right to Stonebridge Lock . and cross the river Lea. Very Way again. Path to Tottenham Marshes 16 17 Railway used as a base for Haringey’s recorded at Railway Fields. Conservation Officer. There are several different Fields Now, the site has gone types of trees, most planted from strength to strength and since the site was adopted Local Nature it gains a Green Flag for but at least one tree, a field Reserve and environmental excellence maple, survives from the Education Centre every year and is now a original 19th century plot. protected area. It is the base 381 for an active conservation , N4 1ES charity, The Conservation Buses: 29, 141, 341 and W5 all Volunteers (TCV) who support pass by the entrance. Wild roses along the path Friends Groups in many other Railway Fields, for 100 years, parks across Haringey. was a coal and railway goods The site was bought by Railway fields is extremely yard and the overground railway Haringey Council in 1970, biodiverse which is mainly still passes by it today. and in 1975 was used as a due to its urban location next Minibeast ‘village’ Social Services community to the railway line and near centre. After this closed a the New River . There are a As well as plants, there small group of local variety of habitats including are numerous mini-beasts in ecologists took an interest in woodland, meadows, a loggeries and the ‘Bug the site in the 1980s and pond, scrubland and marsh. Skyscraper’, amphibians in started to develop it as a Over 200 different types and around the pond and a wildlife area. They planted of wildflowers have been variety of birds and bats. trees, dug a pond and built a Railway Fields is open wooden education hut. Mon-Fri 9-5pm and special Railway Fields gained Local weekend openings for Nature Reserve status in events can be found on the 1990. Friends of Railway Fields The site was closed due to website on the Forthcoming budget cuts in 1991 but it Events page: Remains of the tracks from when was soon opened again with www.friendsofrailwayfields Railway fields was a goods yard. great local support and it was Wildlife pond. .wordpress.com Colourful boats on the River Lea . 19 Circular Walk MAP KEY Water . Fi.nsbury Park and New River Path Walk Route Parks & You are now in Hackney. Railway Green spaces d Taking in a Park, a waterway and a reservoir. ion Roa If you decide to take the Endym oad itage R k longer route round the Herm ade Road Amhurst Par G Road E Vale B Distance 4.6km (2.9miles) Time 1.5 hours Easy The New River part of walk is not acces sible r e New River e reservoir you leave the New d e t a er h o n New Riv R d u n ade Roa io L E ad n River Path and turn left across ym a o e d n r R e R We start this walk at Manor ground turn left on a path that Hertford to New River Head, En Ne e iv rs w Rive s w R ste e o the bridge and then right r Ne Si Clos a n d House Tube. If coming by Tube takes you back to the perimeter Islington. It was built in the 17th ve n where Woodberry Wetlands Se to take the exit for The Park, exit road and to the New River . Century to bring fresh water ew is signposted. The gate to the FINSBURY PARK N 6. Enter Finsbury Park through Turn right before the river and into London and still has a role e wetlands is open 9-4.30pm rov follow the path next to the river y G W the large gate with the Park to play to this day. rr o e and the gate at the other end, be o v od d o r fence which bends left, down to o b r e View Café on your right. Follow the New River Path W d e G v oa r n i open till 5.30pm. Take the left R ry a R the park exit at Green Lanes. Manor rs r w along the river (This is not ste G ev e path around the Reservoir. Si ro D N East Reservoir n n v Trees in Finsbury Park Cross the road via pedestrian House ve y Dow e wheelchair accessible as the Se oodberr Finsbury Park You will reach the lovely Coal tube W lights and turn left to find the path is rough grass and can be L where the path splits and then House Café . Carry on along a Road o Coal House Goodchild rd green metal entrance gate for s Café muddy and there are some Boating Lake G h This grade II listed Park was stay on the same path until its boardwalk. This ends up r ip e R the New River Path. e o steps) . You will have to exit the n a officially opened in 1869. It is end. Turn left through the crossing the New River and L d a path at and n large and has a lot to offer in Mackenzie Garden (this is part takes you back onto the New e s Dr The New River will see the entrance to the ark terms of recreation and nature. of the Capital Ring, a round- River Path where you turn left. ngp continuing path on the opposite Spri There is a tree trail available on London Path). You will see the Follow the river path and r P ve This incredible feat of o Ri side of the road but turn left and rtl the Park’s Friends’ website. playground in front of you and cross Woodberry Grove/ an ew engineering flows for 38 km d N then turn right towards the go across 2 sets of lights to get Lordship Road and pick up Ris The facilities include a d e West (24 miles) from New Gauge, there as this is a very busy oa boating Lake, children’s boating and wildlife lake. Take the path again on the other R A Reservoir rs lex road. The river bends round to te an playgrounds, basketball, the path round the lake to the side. With the West Reservoir is dr To S a en Gr bowling club, tennis, café and left which runs between the lake the right and you continue until visible on your left, keep on v ov Manor WoodberryWetlands Se e toilets, skatepark, picnic areas, and café and it eventually joins you reach a bridge. At this the New River Path and when House the perimeter park road. Follow point you can either carry on you come to the bridge cross St For information about Finsbury Park formal gardens, kick about ro ud Transport Links area, Track and outdoor gym. the road with tennis courts on along the New River Path or it and then turn right to get to G G see the Friends of Finsbury Park website: r r ee e n e www.thefriendsoffinsburypark.org.uk Walk straight, cross the your left and take the first path take a slight detour to go Green Lanes with the Castle R Manor House is on the Piccadilly Line, one stop n oa L d a park perimeter road and take on your right which is again around the East Reservoir in Climbing Centre on your left. from Finsbury Park on the Victoria Line. Several n e For information about the New River the left hand path of the 2 signposted lake and café. Woodberry Wetlands . You will Cross over and turn right onto bus routes that stop at Manor House: 29 and 141 s from Wood Green/Turnpike Lane, from contact the New River Action Group: rejoin the New River Path Green Lanes and walk or take 253 opposite, signposted to the Follow this path and opposite and 254 or 279 from Seven Sisters www.newriver.org.uk boating lake and café. Keep left the entrance to the sports New River Path further along. a bus back to Manor House. Finsbury Park 20 stations 21 Linear Walk Parkland Walk station, next to the railway turn right, walking with Muswell bridge into Finsbury Park where Hill Road in sight on your right Transport Links ALEXANDRA PARK A long nature reserve and a wood it runs next to the railway on the until you get to Cranley Gate Tube left and the tennis courts on the at the other end of the woods. Finsbury Park - Victoria Line and Mus the Piccadilly Line. well Hill Distance 6.5km (4 miles) Time 1.5 hours Easy right. 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Stay on this path with a the Green Café, especially good path before the gated gardens hedged football field on your for afternoon tea. (The Italian Gardens) which right. At the end of the path Take the exit from the park goes past the tennis courts to there is a small building which nearest to the café and cross the Downhills Café with tables is a bike project and to the left the crossing on Lordship Lane. outside. This café does meals, of that is the main park exit out Turn left and walk to the end of sandwiches, cakes and snacks onto Lordship Lane. Cross the road where you cross and has public toilets . Lordship Lane via the crossing Tottenham High Road onto After visiting the café retrace and go straight on along Lansdowne Road via pedestrian your steps to the Italian Waltheof Avenue. At the first lights. Keep going straight and The Lee Navigation as seen from Ferry Lane. Gardens and turn right into mini roundabout turn right up take the first turning on your them. Half way along there is a Tower Gardens Road and cross right, Burlington Road. This of the park. Take a left fork and basketball court on your right. low gate on your left which it. You are now in Tower takes you to Hartington Park . go straight on past the tennis Exit the park onto Park View takes you into a wooded area. Gardens, a historic conservation The old oak in Bruce Castle Park courts, refurbished due to Road. Turn left and then at the There is a rough path straight area, built for London workers in Hartington Park pressure from the active Friends main road turn left again. Pass on across the wood that takes the early 20th Century. before the Roundway bends Group, and you will see a low the first set of traffic lights and round to the right. At the end of you to a wide path where you Take the path diagonally across building on your left which at the next set cross the road to the road is Church Lane and the turn right. At the end of this Tower Gardens the park to the right hand houses Tottenham Café Connect, the Tottenham Hale bus station The Wildlife Lake at Lordship Rec entrance to Bruce Castle Park . path is Downhills Park Road. Park corner, exiting onto Scotland a Community Hub with café and train station forecourt. spur off to the left to return to Lordship Hub , where there is a Green. Opposite, take Parkhurst and growing space. Walk straight past the Station Lordship Rec the main path. Walk past a café and public toilets. You can Some way along Tower Bruce Castle Park Road. Cross over Dowsett Road Go straight on past the café and exit the bus station on to park entrance on your left and get toasties and other snacks Gardens Road on your left you and keep going up Ladysmith and the path bends off to the Ferry Lane where you turn left. Go across the pedestrian lights you will see a large gap in the here and also bird food for will see the red brick entrance to Enter the park where there is a Road. Take the first left up right with the children’s play and then you will enter Lordship hedge on your right. Turn right feeding the birds on the lake. Tower Gardens Park . Follow the children’s playground and turn Mafeking Road. Walk to the area on your left and a Tottenham Recreation Ground (the Rec for here and enter the model traffic Pass Lordship Hub with the path round the park to the exit right up the path. You will see a end of the road into Park View Marshes short). This park was totally area. (Watch out for kids on outdoor gym on your left. Take opposite and slightly to your left large red brick building which Road where you cross over and regenerated in 2012 after bikes). This is a historic area a left at the end of this path and onto Risley Avenue. Turn right is Bruce Castle Museum with a can enter Down Lane Park Walk past some high rise flats successful campaigning by local that was opened by the Minister go across the Moselle River via and carry on to the end where very interesting local history through a gate a little to the left. and cross Mill Mead Road via residents in the Friends Group. of Transport in 1938. Walk a wooden bridge (this is there are a few shops and some collection. Take the path round pedestrian lights. Almost Walk down the path with the along the central path and past Haringey’s hidden river which pedestrian lights on the the left side of the building but Down Lane Park immediately on your left you woodland on your right or walk a paddling pool and children’s is mostly underground from Roundway on your left. Cross don’t exit the park onto the will see a gate to a path and an in the woodland along the rustic playground and you will see a Highgate) . Carry on straight the Roundway, turn right and main road. Take a path to the Once in the park, take the path information board about path to enjoy the trees. Take a lake and a yellow building, with the skate park and open carry on up All Hallows Road left past the Holocaust Memorial to the right along the perimeter Down Lane Park Tottenham Marshes and the 26 27 River Lea . Follow this path with Turn right and walk past the a stream on your right which is lock on the towpath, with the Boating Lake and Café Go Ape Pymmes Brook . On your left, river on your left. You will see Alexandra Park Information Alexandra through the fence, you will see lots of colourful narrow boats. Grove Centre Palace allotments, some of which You are now walking back to Café belong to a community Ferry Lane but this time along organisation which is called the Lee Navigation . Some of the Living Under One Sun . At Ferry Lane, do not exit up brightly The Grove M painted walls u Pitch and Along the path you will the cobbled ramp to the road sw of the former e ll Putt enter an area of marsh but go on under the road. You H filter beds in il meadow. Keep straight on until will then have the river on your l indoor Adventure Markfield Park play you reach a picnic area with left and Pymmes Brook on your that you will Sports public art installations and there right as they come together. see as you Field is a path off to the right leading You will pass lots of residential enter the park Nature to Stonebridge Lock . You go buildings and pass under 2 from the River N Reserve ewlan across the Pymmes Brook over railway bridges and soon you Lea d Road to the Lee Navigation with the will see the gate to Markfield Colourful boats on the Boating Lake in the shadow of the Palace Waterside Café to your left. Park on your right. Markfield Park This is the end of the walk. Either walk back along the river Alexandra Park was opened There is a pitch and putt Entering the park from the river, to Ferry Lane and Tottenham as a Victorian leisure Park course, a boating lake, a you will pass some brightly Hale or walk past the café and over 150 years ago. variety of places to eat, a The Park’s 196 acres of painted walls and past these the Museum and then turn right The ‘People’s Park’ has Farmer’s Market most Grade II listed English you will see the Markflield Café past the car park and then left panoramic views of London’s sundays, a skate park, Heritage parkland is with toilets. again. You go under the railway skyline which are second to landscaped gardens, an managed by the Alexandra Next to the café there is a into Markfield Road. Keep on to none, stretching from Canary indoor soft play area and a Park and Palace Charitable museum housing a Victorian the end of the road where you Wharf to St Paul’s Cathedral recent addition, ‘Go Ape’. Trust, with support from an Beam Engine , as the site was will join Broad Lane. There are and and on a clear In addition to activities in active, local volunteer group, Green below the palace where once a sewage pumping buses there or you can walk left day you can even see the the Park there are also events the Friends of Alexandra you can get great views of London station. You can still see the for Seven Sisters or right for Crystal Palace’s transmitter. in the Palace itself, with its Park , who host nature walks remains of the filter beds. On Tottenham Hale. On a Sunday, There are a huge variety of indoor skating rink and newly and activities within the some Sundays you are able to if you finish at Seven Sisters, activities on offer and it is a refurbished Victorian Theatre grounds throughout the year Friends of Alexandra Park website: see the beam engine in action. you could walk up Tottenham fantastic place to spend a which is scheduled to reopen and help run an information www.friendsofalexandrapark.org/ whole day! in December 2018. Check [email protected] or call High Road to Tottenham Green centre at the weekends. Stonebridge lock on the Lee Navigation 017 0726 0695 . for the Sunday Market, 11-4pm. 28 29 Greens and Commons To. ttenham Ducketts Between Lordship Lane and Wood Green High Road Green & Common Instead of gettng a bus, try walking between Lordship Lane and Wood Green or Turnpike Lane to visit these green spaces

Market Duckett’s Common is a truly urban park bordered on 2 sides Chapman’s by busy main roads, Turnpike Green ve Lane and Green Lanes and Norman A d y a Melro a o s w Turpike Lane Tube. It is one of R e New Roa d th d n Haringey’s success stories. er u P Gran o vill R e L e Road The basketball courts are an or e L ds h ip h T dsh ip L always in use by local young Wood Green Lor ane people and the well-equipped Lordship Lane Tube ne D La e Westbury Banks Nature p e a D hi nu S r u outdoor gym and children’s Belmont Rec : on Boundary Road ds e a w n o or v l i w L A is n e Reserve : on Westbury Avenue le b M v n l R A playground are always busy se u o a h and Downhills Park Road o r i e a r y l M u y k r l N22. Since June 2017, local n ue d s e n R u Lordship v e R b W too. Now there is a small is a small recreation ground with A Av o d t ey t a e s a resident volunteers have spent l n d v e y Gl or ra tl A Rec refreshment kiosk which means a children’s play area and picnic adsto M Far wit W ne A ve He many hours clearing this once W v A Tottenham Green was that more people sit in the park enue n k space. See: www.facebook.com/Friends- o gto ar o in e l P derelict site. d v el Rd redesigned in 2015 to make it and socialise there. of-Belmont-RecMannock-Road-Allotments- mm ll A uss don G Ly sse R ling http://grown22.com/westbury re Ru Wil R a better public space. The 267731280891/ e B u n u e sp H r nu er ig y e R Friends of Tottenham Green do h R Westbury Av o R oa y d d ad oa d ur oa oa regular volunteer gardening d Banks tb R R es ar ry r Road W rd a Ruspe sessions and have created a Si nd ou beautiful wildflower garden. Russell Park B Belmont Rec G D rah ow Every Sunday, 11-4pm, there is (left): on Turnpike am n R hil a market with local food Willingdon Lane Tube d ls Park Road producers and street food. The Road, N22, Lan Carlingford Rd gh Downhills D am Green is a short walk from Russell Avenue u R c o Park k ad e t d , and Mark Road. t s a W o C e R Tottenham High Rd, N15 4RY. It has children’s o G st t m r G n e re o m e en lm o n e www.facebook.com/friendsoftot play areas, gym R n L oa B a d n tenhamgreen equipment, beautiful e Chapman’s Green : on Lordship Lane s www.tottenhamgreenmarket. seating areas and and Perth Road, has lovely formal co.uk Palm in Downhills Park’s Italian Gardens a football field. gardens and tennis courts. @FOCG6 30 31 Community Gardens Haringey has many Residents’ Groups who have got together to Priory Common Orchard Myddleton Road Community on volunteers to help with Living Under develop a space in their neighourhood. These are just a few who gardening, organising events have created beautiful spaces for people to sit, relax or garden. The Priory Common Orchard passers-by, drinking tea etc... Garden and fundraising, and generally One Sun Community Garden is a It is situated behind the bus stop getting involved and helping Gardens Community Garden low-maintenance, edible, on the corner of Redston & make things happen. community garden. Anyone is Priory Roads, N8 8NB. Bus The local volunteers work The Gardens welcome to join in with work routes 144 , W7 , W3 stop under the umbrella of the Community days, looking after the garden, nearby. It is overseen by Community Garden tucked growing fruit & vegetables, Friends of Priory Common . Association in partnership with away in grafting trees, chatting to Contact: 07951 905 490 the Parks Department. They Doncaster have created green space for Gardens, the whole community to enjoy, in the shade of especially those who don’t have the railway that runs through their own garden. Harringay The BPCA also installed an Living Under One Sun’s Community Station. outdoor gym opposite the in East Hale Allotments garden with a beautiful view Living Under One Sun was over the New River and they created in 2005 by mothers of care for Finsbury Gardens . many cultures wanting to reduce Buses 329 or 141 up Green isolation, gain skills and make Lanes to end of Myddleton Rd. The Gardens residents who live in the their neighbourhood safer. Flowers in Myddleton Road Community Garden, N22 8LZ www.bowespark.org.uk/groups Residents Gardens area. LUOS brings people together – /myddleton-road-garden-group. Association is The Garden was opened Myddleton Road Community and trees. There are also a supporting each other to run by the residents of the in 2002 and is open 365 days Garden on Myddleton Road, themed children’s bench and a improve lives, services and Gardens neighbourhood. They a year. The Residents host N22 8LZ was opened in 2003. wooden train. Residents tend neighbourhoods. They run the are concerned with quality-of- many events there throughout It is a welcoming green space their wildlife garden, with the LUOS community allotment in life issues in general and the year. The garden is in in the heart of Bowes Park. It’s a aim of attracting a wider Mill Mead Rd, N17 0HJ at conservation issues: traffic, Doncaster Gardens, off perfect place to sit and enjoy diversity of bees, butterflies, Tottenham Hale by the River Lea trees, community gardening, Stanhope Rd., N4 1HX. the sunshine, have a picnic, or insects and wildlife. They sowed and Tottenham Café Connect, children's clubs, Community Buses 29 or 141 on Green join in with some gardening! a wild flower meadow in 2010. a community hub and food Wardens Scheme and Lanes. For more information The garden includes a The garden is managed and growing project in Down Lane Neighbourhood Watch. The contact: lawned area with seating, looked after by people living in Park . association is open to local gardensresidents.blogspot.com . Part of the Priory Common Orchard flower and herb borders, shrubs the local area and they depend The Outdoor Gym, Myddleton Rd. www.livingunderonesun.co.uk 32 33 Off the Beaten Track Many parks are at the heart of their neighbourhood. W. alking for Free health walks in Haringey organised by Paignton Brunswick Health Haringey Council in partnership with Fusion Park Park The walks are graded: 1: 15 mins or less, 2: 30mins or less, 3: 30 mins or more Walk Leader Training Please check www.walkingforhealth.org.uk for any timetable changes If you are interested in running your own walk, you Paignton Park , Eastbourne DAY TIME MEETING PLACE GRADE Road, N15 6NT has a can get training and playground and natural play Mon 11.00 Tottenham Green Pool & Fitness reception area 1 become a Haringey Walk area. It also has Mon 9.20 Lordship Rec, gates at traffic lights Downhills Park Road, N17 3 Leader. Contact: 020 8885 7307 a community Mon 11.00 North Gate Down Lane Park, Parkview Road, N17 3 square with or [email protected] concrete chess Mon 10.15 Outside Stonecroft Children’s Centre, N8 7HR 3 tables and Tues 10.00 Outside gym area at Whymark Avenue, N22 6DJ 3 outdoor table Weds 10.00 Corner of Tottenham High Road and , N17 3 tennis. There is a lovely mosaic and some tiled Weds 11.00 North Gate Down Lane Park, Parkview Road, N17 3 pillars and a bespoke, very Weds 6.30 Café Forks & Green, West Green Road, N15 4AB Spring/sum mer 2-3 ornate metal entrance arch at Weds 10.00 Outside Café in Markfield Park, N15 4RB 3 the Paignton Road end. is next to the [email protected] railway line at Seven Sisters on Weds 1.15/30 Highgate Station ticket gates, N6 5UA 3 Part of the water feature at Stationers Park with its beautiful willow tree. Brunswick Road, N15 5DD. Weds 11.00 Café in Queenswood Surgery, N8 8JD 3 Encouraged by resident Thurs 11.00 Outside Salvation Army, Lymington Avenue, N22 6JA 3 Stationers Park is one playground and also a pressure, the park had a major of Haringey’s hidden large adventure play refurbishment and name change Thurs 9.15 Downhills Park Road Gate, Belmont Recreation Ground 2 gems. It is tucked away area in the shape of a and was re-launched in June Fri 11.00 Reception Tottenham Green Leisure Centre, N15 4JA 3 on the edge of Crouch wooden fort. 2018. There is a children’s play Fri 10.00 Corner of Tottenham High Road and Park Lane, N17 3 End, on Mayfield Road The Friends of area, a multi-use games area, N8 9LP. Stationers Park run a outdoor gym and table tennis Fri 10.30 Stonebridge Lock Waterside Centre/near toilets, N17 3 It has an ornamental gardening club with tables. A second phase of Fri 12.45 48 Crouch Hall Road 3 water feature running volunteers. improvements are planned. Sat through it and a picnic area. www.facebook.com/Stationers friendsofbrunswickpark@gmail. 11.45 St Pauls Church N17 0HH 3 There is a good children’s Park com Group walks are run by friendly, supportive, specially trained volunteers Path to the lake in Lordship Rec 34 35 Parks Friends Groups Credits

Parks need ‘Friends’! Its all • research the history of the Devised, designed and written by about raising our voices park and produce pamphlets Joan Curtis, Friends of Lordship Rec about what matters to our • apply for grants for some of communities and taking the above and other projects Photographs ‘ownership’ of our lives, local The Haringey Friends of Parks facilities and areas and then The following photos provided by Forum is the umbrella seeking improvements. members of Tottenham Photography Club: organisation/network of Friends Gary Oland: FC EVERY PARK AND GREEN Groups supporting all public Stephen Furner: IFC, p16, p29 top left, SPACE NEEDS FRIENDS: green spaces throughout the p30 top left, p30 right If you value your local park or borough of Haringey. These Glynis Kirkwood-Warren: p3, p8 bottom green space, want to see spaces have a vital role in the right, p11 improvements and more people lives of all sections of the Mustafa Suleman: p18, p27 top right, using it, then get together with community. The Forum discusses p28 bottom left, BC Mark Bambridge : p27 top left other park users to form a issues of common concern, and Friends Group , or join an ways to improve and sustain the Linda Alliston: p5 3rd from left, top row existing one! Park users work borough's green spaces. See Jae Davis: p15 top left with the Council, local schools, more on Friends Groups on: Living Under One Sun: p33 top right conservation and community www.haringeyfriendsofparks. Friends of Lordship Rec: p36 groups to promote, protect and org.uk All other photos: Joan Curtis improve their local spaces. There is also a London wide organisation, the London Some of the things Friends do: Friends of Green Spaces • discuss views and concerns Network – www.lfgn.org.uk • lobby the Council for and a National organisation: better maintenance, and also The National Federation of improvements Parks and Green Spaces – • publicise their park and www.natfedparks.org.uk. This Friends of Lordship Friends’ activities through is the umbrella organisation Rec, planting trees and websites, blogs or leaflets that aims to amplify and working in the lake • organise volunteer work days represent the voices of Friends Wildlife Habitats ‘to let’ in Priory Common Orhard or park events Groups across the UK. Printed by Premier Print Group 36 Published in July 2018 by Friends of Lordship Rec www.lordshiprec.org.uk

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