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Queen’s Wood , formerly Noel Park Estate , Tower Gardens Tottenham Cemetery known as Churchyard historic 19th Century Estate , council was opened in 1857 with Bottom Wood, was affordable housing estate built 100 years various later extensions. It purchased by Hornsey development, now a ago as a ‘garden is a conservation area with Urban District Council conservation area. suburb’ – now a listed features such as the d WH a ITE H conservation area. o ART L two chapels. in 1898. It is an Noel Park North Area R ANE t Crei t ghton a Roa Tower Gardens y d ancient woodland Residents Association: r W F HIT 10 TOTTENHAM CEMETERY E HART www.noelparknorth. Residents Group : Lesse Allotments LANE and a designated The Roundw r Mosell ay e rst Rd local nature reserve. wordpress.com www.towergardensn17. Penshu Moselle St t Friends of Queen’s Wood: org.uk Whitehall S d Pax d ton Road R R 11 M e TOTTENHAM r www.fqw.org.uk y a y e r o Bruce Castle is a Grade 1 a sh f m NE w a CEMETERY u d x HIP LA ll a S n e D e R T R l LO u h listed 16th century manor o B C F hur o e a 9 ch Roa Tower Gardens Estate 8 d R R d ou D 6 e n 12 A house. It opened as a WOOD GREEN h d S T w O a R a l y i UE s H museum in 1906. Bruce N b AVE G u d I E V L r R H r M EL i OS n y BRUCE CASTLE e Castle Park was the first n a M e c v y R o e n i e t W n o a R s G g d a R la t LO L PARK & MUSEUM e R n R d d D i public park in Tottenham. w S o R H s n s I P h a t n e o o L t P A d t n N c e d e E n x e r D N l r a h A e C u n a v o m e B www.friendsofbrucecastle.org.uk h w R R C ALEXANDRA PARK ad n d g Ro d Cobur h LORDSHIP i l l s H W RECREATION IG H a Lansdowne Road l y d R GROUND C R KEY O Broadwater Farm Estate a e A r B l i D 7 R b o U m M M C E e U Pe K Route of the walk S Adam G mbury Hartington Pk d W s Road R Rd E a O Po L o E y L NU V nton R d Rd E Scotland R lan V E oa H New 5 A d d I n Y R L UR a os o d eb Route of the Moselle L B Green o e t T ry C ES R A ar d R v y e bu e W Sh nue nc o e l C R t rrin e P ran n m s gh as le B a s y Miles Rd r m a Ga a e o Ave ge rde L u nu ns n d e r e h e r l e u e k Other waterways e d a s n r r o v D R i o W g F w a n a s oodla n b BELMONT RECREATION ett R d L New R nd i s oa P n d Rise t G p s o d h w y t s River GROUND a g m r e e W i o o oo l H a i dl o r NE gha and N t N PIKE LA m Road Do Ga d Estate RN TURNPIKE LANE R w s C r n C TU dens arde c sett y G e d R ranle PR h oad C IORY R y t On ROAD i slow M HIGH S Ga E TREET D m rde h s ns L ue Sout e A rk Aven y Pa n A d O d V a R e R a L n L d HIGHGATE WOOD k H a Crouch End Open D e c a DOWNHILLS PARK d o n e L G R R O P a b h I O A L k c m H Ho w R a h lc ie K e ir r s om V Spaces is the name W 4 PRIORY l u h HORNSEY i be B l R k R d h n d r d w a 2 O i C e P A t a D PARK M t D given to a group of 1 o T C CROUCH END hesn Sc 3 ut ale y sports fields and areas E R s R DOWN a L Police Station d Tam oa A OPEN SPACES a d W QUEEN’ S WOOD V FURTHER READING r W d d ay LANE a a of open space on the D o e k O R o A.Pinching and D.Dell, Haringey’s Hidden y rm ro O PARK le e B Highgate/Crouch End W h t Streams Revealed , Hornsey Historical s a es s W A W m ueen ood R m border. Friends of Q oad Society, 2005 WAY y ONUMENT P D M P.Talling, London’s Lost Rivers , Random House A Markfield Park was the site of a Crouch End Open HIGHGATE O R Books, 2011 H Victorian sewage works. The Spaces are active in IG conservation work and H recreation ground opened in 1938. The individual Friends of Parks websites have TOTTENHAM E Recent improvements include a new preventing inappropriate N HALE information about the histories of their parks A TOTTEHNAM THE PADDOCK ’s Hill L Shepherd development on the site D a café, an improved sports pavillion, and current activities (see photo captions). A RETAIL F e S E R L t O RY r a R LA e n v heritage building works to Markfield B PARK NE i h R o p Information on Haringey’s parks can also be WES e T Museum and general landscape GR R EEN o found on Haringey Council website: ROA a D improvements. The park was awarded d Cla ll www.haringey.gov.uk BROAD LANE d re i a m H SEVEN SISTERS on d Lordship Recreation Ground, opened in 1936, o a Green Flag in 2010. Friends of t R n R oa E SEVEN SISTERS d d ch l u e o underwent major redevelopment in 2012 including i Markfield Park: www.markfieldpark.org.uk Cr f This brochure was produced by members of AD k RO r S a restoration of the River Moselle, other major ISTER iver Lea Haringey Friends of Parks Forum, an organisation S M R SEVEN protecting and promoting green space in Haringey. relandscaping work, a new environmental centre Markfield Beam Engine , part of the Priory Park was opened in 1896. There are www.haringeyfriendsofparks.org.uk with cafe and toilets and the restoration of the Shell 13 Victorian sewage works, has been two listed fountains. It has been awarded a Supported by the Haringey Federation of Residents Theatre and nationally unique model traffic area. A restored by volunteers and is operated Green Flag since 2003. Friends of Priory Park: visit to these facilities is recommended! MARKFIELD Associations. www.haringeyresi dents.org 14 under steam power on designated ea www.fopp-n8.org.uk Friends of Lordship Rec: www.lordshiprec.org.uk PARK er L days. www.mbeam.org Riv MOSELL a row of trees. You can’t walk this way so retrace your steps, walk along Hornsey High Street with Your best route from here is to continue straight across Lordship Lane and walk up the E its shops and cafés and take the second turning on the left, Campsbourne Road. At the T-junction Bennington Road. Turn right onto the Roundway and continue along All Hallows Road. At the low Haringey’s R Fol R IV K turn right onto Pembroke Road. This road is on the site of an ornamental lake constructed on the T-junction turn left onto Church Lane and then left again through All Hallows churchyard. You iv ER AL course of the river in the grounds of a large house called Campsbourne Lodge. soon come to a fenced footpath through the middle of Tottenham Cemetery. 9 er W The River Moselle is Haringey’s river. It Turn left into Myddelton Road and right into Miles Road and you come to Moselle Close . At the Go through the first unlocked gate on your left and walk parallel to the fenced path you have end of this cul-de-sac there is a passage which brings you out onto a footpath called Cross Lane just left, keeping it on your right. This brings you to a bridge across the river from which you can flows from the Northern Heights in the and the New River Estate. You can tell you are on the course of the river as the ground slopes up see a second bridge to your right. Cross the bridge and then turn left along the north bank of the west to the River Lea in the east.