A Guide to Camden’s

Parks and Open Spaces

Contents Kilburn, West , and 2 , Hampstead, and 7 , Somers Town, , and 12 Useful contacts and how to get involved 21 Alphabetical list of parks, addresses, features and travel details 27

Index 32

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Introduction Camden Council manages nearly 70 parks and open spaces. They range from small neighbourhood playgrounds to grand city squares, historic graveyards to allotments. These oases dotted throughout the Borough, complement the bigger and somewhat better known areas that the Council does not manage, such as , Primrose Hill and Regents Park. In recent years Camden has spent a good deal of money improving its parks and open spaces. In addition, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, over £5 million has been spent on restoring five historic parks (Hampstead Cemetery, , St George’s Gardens, St Pancras’ Gardens and Waterlow Park). We have increased the numbers of gardeners and attendants in parks – please let them know what you think of our service, you can identify them by their uniforms. In addition we have Parks Officers on duty every day of the year, backed up by a mobile security patrol. As well as managing public parks, the Parks and Open Spaces Service looks after the Borough’s trees, runs the allotment service and manages a number of large grounds maintenance contracts for other Council departments. We also lead on the Camden Biodiversity Action Plan.

We would like you to think of this Guide as a welcoming invitation to Camden’s parks and open spaces. There is information about most of them with a complete alphabetical list at the back, as well as contact details for our services and other useful organisations.

Kilburn, , Swiss Cottage and Primrose Hill

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4 Branch Hill and Spedan Close 3 Branch Hill Allotments are tucked away on Branch Hill, NW3 close to Antrim Gardens 1 Hampstead village and have 26 plots Antrim Gardens, next to one of the and a communal shed. There is Council’s allotment sites, is more than currently a waiting time of 10 years for just an attractive quiet sun trap within a plot at this site which to relax. As well as a children’s Spedan Close play area is set in a playground it also contains two wooded enclosure and provides a architectural curiosities, both valuable play facility for the local presented to the Gardens in 1945 – community. It caters for children from one a decorative well-head made from 4-12 years old. stonework from the original House of Commons and the other a sundial constructed from a baluster of the old Broadhurst Copse 4 Waterloo Bridge. Antrim Grove The name of this site is misleading. If allotments are a small-enclosed site there was a copse on this site it has with 27 plots and a communal shed. long since been replaced by a small There is currently a waiting time of 10 park, the main feature of which is a years to get a plot at this site. playground. Adelaide Road Open Nature Reserve 2 Space and Situated along a railway embankment Hampstead Cemetery 5 on Adelaide Road, NW3. This sunny Fortune Green is a much-valued large site next to Blashford Tower has a open space with a village green feel. It summer meadow, pond, areas of consists mostly of lawns and specimen scrub and a small woodland. Regular trees and is adjacent to the Fortune conservation workdays for volunteers Green Play Centre (managed by the take place on the last Sunday of the Council’s Play Service) and the month; contact the Nature tranquil Hampstead Cemetery. There Conservation Section. Tel 020 7974 is a playground for young children. In 8818. the summer it plays host to the popular Jester Festival.

Hampstead Cemetery covers 26 Kilburn Grange 7 acres and has a main drive and public Kilburn Grange is a large park situated footpath running through it from behind the busy Kilburn High Road. It Fortune Green to . The was opened to the public in 1913, the cemetery has no new grave spaces land having previously been part of the available, but there is an area for Grange estate from which it takes its cremated remains to the north of the name. The park is divided into a series cemetery. The Islington and Camden of areas. At one end are tennis courts Cemetery Service manages the and a play project. Next is the cemetery (see contacts section at the secluded rose garden; the main central end of this guide). Hampstead area is a large open lawn which is Cemetery was opened in 1876. There used for fairs and other events in the are two Gothic-style chapels, which are listed buildings, and an entry 5 lodge made of Kentish Rag and Bath stone. There has been some major work to these buildings under a scheme supported by the Heritage summer. There is also a large hard Lottery Fund, as well as road surface multi-use games area in one improvements and new landscaping. corner and a dog exercise area. On Hampstead Cemetery today has an the other side of the lawn, near to the excellent collection of memorial art, new park attendants hut are children’s reflecting the cosmopolitan nature of playgrounds where there is a unique the area’s previous inhabitants. The children’s water play feature. The park site is also important for nature is staffed permanently by both a conservation and biodiversity. gardener and an attendant.

Iverson Road Maygrove Peace Park 8 Opened in 1984, the Peace Park is an Open Space 6 unusual site with landscaped rolling Iverson Road Open Space provides hillocks and shrub covered two facilities; a hard surface multi-use embankments. The gardens are well sports area containing a five-a-side known for the large number of plaques pitch and two basketball courts and a and other features which promote children’s playground. world peace. A Japanese style pagoda entrance leads through to a “peace walk”. Maygrove Peace Park also has a playground and a floodlit multi-use

games area; it is next to the Sidings redevelopment which includes the Community Centre. refurbished library, sports centre, community centre and theatre. The Primrose Gardens 9 open space will include a water feature Primrose Gardens contains lawns, with angled jets to be lit in the evening. shrubs and roses and lends an elegant The park will be landscaped with charm to the period houses which shrubs and trees (mainly cherries for surround it. Its small size and narrow spring colour and maples for autumn shape mean that it is generally quiet colour). The lawn areas will be banked and peaceful. It has a small central in a series of terraces. There will be a paved seating area. toddlers’ play area and an all weather five-a-side football pitch. The open space will be re-opened in the Winter Quex Road of 2005/06. Open Space 10 Quex Road Open Space is a small neighbourhood playground adjacent to Saint Mary’s CE School Kilburn. Nature Reserve 13 This small woodland made up primarily

6 of native tree species (ash, oak, lime) is an important habitat for nesting bats and birds. A boardwalk runs through the site allowing visitors to experience Sumatra Road the woodland at close hand without Open Space 11 causing it damage. The site is open for This small open space, created just a visit or to volunteer and take part in after the Second World War, includes conservation work every Thursday a small hard surface five-a-side pitch morning and the second Sunday of the and a playground for younger children. month. Extra children’s and community A shrub lined walk leads into the site events are also held on a regular from the road and a specimen rose basis; contact the Nature Conservation hedge lines the street frontage. Section Tel 020 974 8818. Behind Westbere Copse, Jenny Wood Nature Swiss Cottage Reserve has a pond, a small meadow area and woodland. Open Space 12 The open space forms the centrepiece of the Swiss Cottage civic site

Westcroft Estate West End Green 15 Allotments 14 West End Green was originally the green of the ancient hamlet of West An unusual allotment site situated End. It is situated right by the shops within Westcroft housing estate close and bus stops. As well as lawn areas to Cricklewood (NW2). Many of the and mature plane trees, West End plots have their own shed. Waiting Green has a large decorative stone times for plots at this site are available drinking fountain, dating from 1897. on request. Contact the Allotments There is also an oak tree which was Officer 020 7974 8819. planted to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII.

Gospel Oak, Hampstead, Highgate and Kentish Town

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Falkland Place 9 Open Space 16 This site, away from busy roads, primarily provides facilities for local gardens on the west side of Highgate children. There are playgrounds Road allow greater access and offer suitable for all ages as well as some seating. open space. Highgate New Town Open Fitzroy Park Allotments 17 Our largest allotment site with 86 plots. Space 20 The site overlooks Hampstead Heath. Although Highgate New Town has There is currently a waiting time of 10 much open space surrounding it, there years for a plot at this site. is little at its centre. This small site provides a playarea for local children and in partnership with the local Hampstead Green 18 community, a major improvement Hampstead Green is not generally project is planned during 2005. open for public access. Instead it is cultivated as a spring wild flower meadow and in spring is a blaze of Leighton Crescent colour with daffodils. This attractive site Gardens 21 can be easily viewed from paths which Leighton Crescent Gardens has thick run around most of its perimeter. shrub borders and a hard surface Hampstead Green is a small haven for multi-use games area at its centre. wildlife, particularly insects, in this busy built up area. Lismore Circus 22 Although originally laid out as a circular Highgate Enclosures and garden in the 19th century, Lismore Grove Terrace Squares 19 Circus has been absorbed into the This series of small gardens run extensive redevelopment of the Gospel alongside Highgate Road. They Oak area in recent decades as a provide shade and have attractive floral valued open space. Retaining its displays in summer. The fine 18th circular shape, Lismore Circus is century houses of Grove Terrace bisected by a path and seating and is provide an appropriately impressive open and lit at night. backdrop on the eastern side. The 10

Montpelier Gardens 23 on the third Sunday of the month. Extra children’s and community events are This is a hidden garden, accessible via also held on a regular basis; contact passageways and not seen from the the Nature Conservation Section Tel. road. As a result its small lawn and 020 7974 8818. large shrub beds have an even more tranquil feel. On one side of the Gardens is a large playground. Entry is Talacre Gardens 26 from Brecknock Road, Montpelier This large open space between Chalk Grove and Leighton Grove. Farm to the west and Kentish Town to the east was redesigned in 2003 Pond Square Gardens 24 following the development of Talacre Community Sports Centre. Separate Situated at the highest point of the areas provide an all weather pitch; a Borough in historic Highgate Village, children’s playground; a planted Pond Square is a triangular area seating area; a wide expanse of grass, studded with fine trees. The Square pathways and benches and an area was the site of two ponds, both of outside of the park for dog exercising. which were drained in 1886 to create The Gardens provide an ideal space the open space. for community activities and events at Russell Nurseries and all times of the year. 25 Waterlow Park 27 This large mature woodland site Waterlow Park is the largest park run (situated between tube by Camden and was bequeathed to the station and Lawn Road NW3) is a public by Sir Sidney Waterlow in 1889 haven for local wildlife and plant as a “garden for the gardenless”. Set species. It is adjacent to a housing on a hillside with panoramic views over estate and accessible to public. The , the Park includes the historic woodland is known for its large Lauderdale House and its formal specimen oak trees. Alongside Russell terraced gardens. Waterlow has ponds Nurseries is the Belsize Wood Nature on three levels, tree lined walkways, Reserve – a lovely small woodland. mature shrub beds and herbaceous Whilst visiting the site you can admire borders, ornamental bedding, the architecture of the listed Isokon expanses of lawn, six tennis courts and building next door. The nature reserve a small playground for younger is open for visits or to volunteer and children. take part in conservation work every Wednesday morning and

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The Park is home to much wildlife, including foxes and bats. It also has an aviary which is used as an injured animal recovery centre. Many educational and entertaining events are organised by the Council. The Park is staffed permanently by two gardeners and an attendant. The Council has undertaken a large improvement and restoration programme supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This has seen the creation of a Waterlow Park Centre, restoration of the terraced gardens and surrounding historic walls, and the creation of timber boardwalks and viewing platforms at two of the ponds. Waterlow Park Centre The Centre is available for both public and private use, including:

> Environmental educational sessions for local schools and colleges > Information about Camden parks and open spaces including local history and events and exhibitions > Functions and conferences. The building has a capacity of 200 people. For more information please contact: Waterlow Park Centre Manager

Tel 020 7974 8810 Fax 020 7974 1543 Email [email protected]

Camden Town, Somers Town, Bloomsbury, Holborn and Fitzrovia

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Alf Barrett Playground 28 A recent refurbishment aimed to reflect elements of Humphrey Repton’s 1806 This playground offers a range of play layout, restore the views and link to the equipment including items for children nearby Russell Square. New railings with disabilities. There is a wide slide, and a hornbeam fence were introduced with easy access and a roundabout along with new paths, park furniture that wheelchairs can be pushed aboard and landscape improvements. and secured. Argyle Square Gardens 29 The Gardens were laid out by the Gardens 31 Victorians and are still almost Brunswick Square was constructed as completely surrounded by original part of the recreation grounds of the houses. A climbing frame suitable for Foundling Hospital, an orphanage young children is situated at one end of founded by the distinguished seaman the Square and a multi-use fenced Captain Thomas Coram in 1739. The sports pitch at the other. The Square square on the other side of what is now has an open feel but still retains its Coram’s Fields, Mecklenburgh Square original perimeter plane trees. The park also formed part of the grounds. Today attendant for the area is based here. Brunswick Square is open to the public as a garden. Near the centre of the Bloomsbury garden is the finest example of a London Plane tree to be found Square Gardens 30 anywhere in Camden. Brunswick Laid out in 17th century as the piazza Square was recently renovated with to the Earl of Southampton’s mansion, new railings, paths, park furniture, tree has outlived the and landscape improvements. building it was intended to grace and now stands as a companion piece to Camden Gardens 32 Russell Square. Statues of eminent This park, more than any other in the Whig politicians face each other along Borough, demonstrates the pressure of Bedford Place which connects them. the urban environment on green space. Bloomsbury Square was redeveloped As well as being surrounded on all in the 1960s when an underground car sides by busy roads, this small garden park was constructed beneath it. actually has a raised railway bridge running right through the middle of it. A

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little green oasis between Camden and focal point for parents with young Kentish Towns. children. Camden Square Clarence Square Gardens 33 Gardens, Munster This traditional Victorian square has an Square Gardens and excellent stock of mature trees as well as spring bulbs. Following public Hampstead Road Open consultation the Square offers a large Space 36 dog free area. At one end of the These green spaces predate the Square is the Camden Square Play Regent’s Park Estate, which has grown Centre which is run by the Council. up around them. They now provide valuable public open space in this Cantelowes Gardens 34 densely populated area. The Gardens This large green space beside Camden are generally of modest design, Road has a multitude of uses. As well incorporating lawn areas, shrub beds as quiet areas and shrub beds there is and some trees. a children’s playground, a multi-use sports pitch and a skatepark for College Gardens 37 skateboarding, roller skating/blading College Gardens is a small triangular and BMX riding. Cantelowes Gardens open space at the north end junction of is the only park in Camden where the Royal College Street and St Pancras focus has been directed so specifically Way. at young people. Following extensive community consultation a major Crabtree Fields 38 refurbishment of Cantelowes Gardens Crabtree Fields is a small park nestling and the skatepark is planned. in the back streets of Fitzrovia. As well as a playground and shrub beds, the Chalcot Square park has an attractive pergola walk covered in climbing plants. Gardens 35 This attractive and quiet little square complements the imposing terraces of Cumberland Market 39 Primrose Hill. Flowering cherry trees Cumberland Market has gone through surround a paved seating area in the a number of changes since its original middle of the Gardens. The Square is a market days. The site currently

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includes a floodlit hardsurface sports The lawns and mature trees of this pitch and a playground. The sports oval shaped garden set off the pitch is regularly used by local young attractive 19th century terraced people. Working with local crescent along its edge. Opposite organisations, funding has been is St Pancras Hospital and St secured to improve the layout and Pancras Gardens. landscaping of Cumberland Market. Harrington Square This will mainly concentrate on improving the cobbled surface of the Gardens 43 western side and planting an avenue of Since 1928, when nearby gardens trees along the central walk way. were lost to the construction of Greater London House, Harrington Square has Elm Village Open Space 40 been the only large public garden in this part of the Borough. The Square This small local garden has a more has lawns and large trees but is expansive feel due to a split level particularly noted for its flower displays design. It has a number of attractive – one reason for its great popularity at shrub beds, seating areas and a summer lunchtimes. children’s playground which has been recently refurbished. Judd Street Euston Square Gardens Open Space 44 This small green includes children’s (East and West) 41 swings and a dog exercise area. The The benches, lawns and shrub beds of site was created in the early Euston Square provide a pleasant 1950s with the construction of the environment for travellers using Euston Cromer housing estate and is actually Station. The square is divided in two by built on the site of an 18th century a bus lane which passes between bowling green. stone lodges from the original entrance to Euston Station. Given its location this park probably has more visitors Lincoln’s Inn Fields 45 than any other in Camden! This square is the largest in London and the oldest in Camden – there has Goldington Crescent been public open space here since at least the 12th century. In the Gardens 42 subsequent centuries it was used for

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duelling, jousting and occasional public Purchese Street Open executions. It was laid out formally in the 17th century and enclosed in 1735 Space 48 under an Act of Parliament. The This open space provides valuable chequered past is little in evidence recreation facilities for the local today as people lounge on the lawns community. There is a small and benches at lunchtimes while the playground, a hard surface games area more energetic play tennis or netball. for older children and a segregated dog The Fields were used as a camp by the exercise area. The main path through Royal Canadian Air Force during the Purchese Street Open Space is lit at Second World War – a fact marked by night. one of the many monuments to be Queen Square Gardens 49 found in the square. Lincoln’s Inn Away from the busy traffic routes Fields is staffed by both a gardener through Bloomsbury is peaceful Queen and an attendant. Square. The square is packed with features – lawns, rose beds, flowers, Oakley Square Gardens 46 shrubs, trees, statues and monuments. Oakley Square Gardens is a typical The square is much used, especially in 19th century square; it was the summer. relandscaped in 1953 to celebrate the Coronation of Elizabeth II and has Red Lion Square changed little since. A network of paths weave between new shrub Gardens 50 beds, a fine collection of mature trees Red Lion Square is the hidden jewel of and two large circular rose beds. Holborn. It was laid out in 1698 and took its name from a famous local inn, Polygon Road With traffic mostly passing by at just one end it is very quiet and secluded. Open Space 47 The Square also has some statuary, This open space in the heart of Somers including a bust of the philosopher Town has quiet seating area, a Bertrand Russell. recreational grass area and a popular playground. It is adjacent to the Regent Square Gardens 51 popular ‘Plot 10’ play project. Regent Square is another typical 19th century residential square consisting of

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lawns, shrub beds, paths and and St Andrew’s Gardens 54 mature trees. St Andrew’s Gardens was opened to the public in 1885, having previously Rochester Terrace been a burial ground. Many tombs and Gardens 52 gravestones can still be seen in the Rochester Terrace Gardens is a typical Gardens and they lend an air of residential square with lawns, mature tranquility to the open lawns, flower trees and large play facility making it beds and mature trees. valued locally. St George’s Gardens 55 Russell Square Gardens St George’s Gardens is a real oasis. 53 The many large plane trees create This large square is situated just shade and imposing ivy clad tombs behind the . It was and gravestones are found throughout completed in 1806 to a design by the Gardens. There is also a striking Humphrey Repton for the 5th Duke of stone obelisk and classical statuary. Bedford, whose statue still stands in Historically, St George’s Gardens is Gardens today. important, as it was the first burial ground in London not to be sited next The Council was supported by the to its church. The Gardens comprise Heritage Lottery Fund to restore and the sites of two former burial grounds, refurbish the gardens. This award those of St George the Martyr winning refurbishment included (Holborn) and St George’s Bloomsbury removing some of the cosmetic (Camden). St George’s Gardens has alterations made in the 1960s and recently undergone a restoration installing a new central plaza and water project supported by the Heritage feature. Russell Square has a café Lottery Fund. The renovated Chapel of which is open all year and the Ease now provides a meeting place for expansive lawns and vibrant floral local groups as well as a store for the displays make it a poular lunchtime gardener who works here and at St spot. Russell Square now benefits from Andrew’s Gardens. the attentions of a permanent gardener.

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St George’s Terrace Open gardens is the large children’s playground which has been a feature Space 56 for many years. This small open space is a pleasing contrast to Primrose Hill park which is St Pancras’ Gardens 60 just across the road. Instead of St Pancras’ Gardens surrounding St sweeping lawns and occasional trees, Pancras Old Church one of the oldest St George’s Terrace Open Space is a sites of Christian worship in Europe, collection of trees, shrubs and lawns was opened in 1891. The gardens adding character to the period terrace replaced the original churchyard and which overlooks it. incorporated the burial ground of St St Giles’ Churchyard 57 Giles-in-the-Fields, , the This historic graveyard has a number original churchyard of which is also a of memorials and tombstones and was public garden managed by the Council. also the site of two “plague pits” during There are many interesting features: the Black Death. It is tucked away in the extravagent BurdettCoutts the corner of Covent Garden and is a memorial sundial which has recently quiet, pleasant spot in which to pause been restored; nearby, “the English in the shadow of St Giles-inthe-Fields Bach”, Johann Christian, youngest son and the mature trees that surround it. of J.S. Bach was buried in 1782; the famous memorial to Sir John Soane’s St James’ Gardens 58 wife, the design of which inspired the classic “K2” red telephone box; behind These large gardens just west of the church is a tree which has grown Euston Station were once a burial over and among gravestones, which ground and still have many tombs and were propped up against it when the gravestones. St James’ Gardens has a Gardens were laid out – stone and fenced hard surface sports pitch and a wood are now fused together. The site playground. The gardens have a calm, has recently been improved and secluded air. restored this project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. St Martin’s Gardens 59 This former burial ground has gently undulating lawns and a perimeter lined with dozens of original gravestones. Gardens 61 The most obvious element of the

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Tavistock Square is leafy, shaded and this guide). There is also a playground less busy than nearby Russell Square. and a seating area. The Gardens include fine mature trees and shrubs around the border with Whitfield Gardens 63 lawns and flower beds in the centre. A This paved open space next to the number of memorial features can be American Church on Tottenham Court found in Tavistock Square, some which Road is designed for people to rest and promote peace. There is the central sit back form the frantic tempo of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, a tree busy shops. Recently, the site has planted to commemorate the victims of been improved and new artwork has the Hiroshima bombing and a been developed with local groups and Conscientious Objectors’ memorial the charity Groundwork Camden and stone. In one corner is an impressive Islington. Formerly, it was the burial stone bench which commemorates ground for Whitfield’s Tabernacle and, Dame Lousia Aldrich-Blake, one of the before that, the site of a large pond first women surgeons. called The Little Sea. The Warren 62 The Warren is an extremely well used Wicklow Street open space. The recently resurfaced Open Space 64 and floodlit sports pitch is available for Two facilities are provided at Wicklow bookings and is often used for training Street. The first is a hard surface sessions by the local group, Fitzrovia multiuse sports pitch and the second, a Youth in Action (see contacts at end of small playground. The play equipment has been upgraded in recent years. Useful contacts and Tel 020 7974 1693 how to get involved (line staffed 8am-11pm every day) Fax 020 7974 1543 For more information or to report a problem in a park please contact Email [email protected] Website www.camden.gov.uk Parks and Open Spaces Latest news and parks information can Crowndale Centre be found on the Camden website. For 218 Eversholt Street events please log on to London NW1 1BD www.camden.gov.uk

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We also publish a listing of park (tennis courts and football/basketball) events in the quarterly newsletter At Tel 07717 516 352 your Leisure available from all Lincoln’s Inn Fields Camden receptions, libraries and (tennis and netball) sports centres. Tel 07717 516 251 St James’ Gardens Waterlow Park Centre (football/ basketball) The Centre is available for both public Tel 07717 300 093 and private use, including: Waterlow Park > Environmental educational sessions (tennis courts) for local schools and colleges Tel 07717 300 137 > Information about Camden parks Attendants are available to take and open spaces including local bookings from 10 minutes to the hour history and events and exhibitions > until 10 minutes past the hour (during Functions and conferences. daylight hours, every day). The building has a capacity of 200 The Warren people. For more information To book the sports pitch please please contact: contact Waterlow Park Centre Manager Fitzrovia Youth in Action Tel 020 7974 8810 Basement Fax 020 7974 1543 Email 66-68 Warren Street London [email protected] W1T 5NZ Sports pitches in Tel 020 7388 7399 Fax 020 7388 7399 parks Talacre Community Sports Centre To book a park sports court Dalby Street please contact London NW5 3AF Argyle Square Tel 020 7974 8765 (football/basketball) Fax 020 7974 8751 Tel 07717 516 353 Website www.camden.gov.uk/sport Kilburn Grange

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Community sports facility with a Fax 020 7272 3588 Email gymnastics training centre, a sports [email protected] hall with four badminton courts, an indoor soft play area for young children and an outdoor artificial turf pitch Friends of Parks and suitable for football and hockey. Gardens groups, community gardens Trees and gardening clubs Camden Tree Section Camden Information Services Parks and Open Spaces London Borough of Camden London Borough of Camden (address Crowndale Centre as above) 218 Eversholt Street Tel 020 7974 1591 London NW1 1BD Fax 020 7974 1543 Tel 020 7974 1656 Email [email protected] Fax 020 7974 1566 Nature Conservation Email [email protected] and Biodiversity Website http://cindex.camden.gov.uk Principal Nature Conservation Officer Cemeteries Parks and Open Spaces Islington and Camden London Borough of Camden Cemetery Service (address as above) High Road East Finchley Tel 020 7974 8816 London N2 9AG Fax 020 7272 3588 Email [email protected] Tel 020 8883 1231 Fax 020 8365 2178 Allotments Islington Council manages St Pancras and Hampstead Cemeteries. Camden Allotments Officer does not have a crematorium. Parks and Open Spaces However, the Islington and Trent Park London Borough of Camden Cemetery and Crematorium service is (address as above) also based at High Road, East Tel 020 7974 8816 Finchley (Tel 020 8883 1230).

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Other Camden Tel 020 7973 3893 Fax 020 7973 3890 Email services andrew.ginner@englishherita Customer Service Centre ge.org.uk London Borough of Camden Website www.english-heritage.org.uk 3-5 Cressy Road London NW3 2ND Parliament Hill Tel 020 7974 5974 The Manager Fax 020 7974 3153 Email The Staff Yard [email protected] Open Highgate Road Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. London NW5 1QR Camden Direct Information Service Tel 020 7485 4491 Email with information on Camden Council, hampstead.heath@ organisations and services in Camden. corpoflondon.gov.uk Website Parks and open www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ openspaces spaces managed by Regent’s Park or Primrose Hill other organisations The Royal Parks Park Information Office Hampstead Heath The Storeyard Superintendent of Hampstead Heath Inner Circle Heathfield House Regents Park 432 Archway Road London NW1 4NR London N6 4JH Tel 020 7486 7905 Tel 020 8348 9908 Fax 020 7224 1895 Fax 020 8348 1677 Website https://www.royalparks.org.uk/ Website https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events Highgate Cemetery Kenwood Highgate Cemetery Swain’s Lane The Ivy Bequest Kenwood Hampstead Lane London N6 6PJ London NW3 7JR (please include an SAE)

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Tel 020 8340 1834 Department, it has a large wildlife pond Website and a children’s play area. An action www.highgatecemetery.or group helps manage the site and hold g.uk regular conservation workdays for volunteers and local events. Open in Coram’s Fields Children’s Playground daylight hours. Access to the pond is restricted. Coram’s Fields 93 Tel 020 7435 5443 London WC1N 1DN Greville Place London Wildlife Trust Tel 020 7837 6138 Fax 020 7833 2393 On Greville Place NW6, close to Kilburn Park Tube. This small site Camley Street Natural Park is the garden of a coach house once occupied by Pink Floyd. Now Camley Street Natural Park managed as a nature reserve it 12 Camley Street has many interesting trees and a London NW1 0PW small pond. Open the first Sunday Tel 020 7833 2311 of the month for visits and Email [email protected] conservation workdays. Kentish Town City Farm Tel 020 7261 0447 Kentish Town City Farm Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve 1 Cressfield Close A small nature reserve situated just off London NW5 4BN Mortimer Terrace, NW5. Between Tel 020 7916 5421 Gordon House and the Silverlink (North London) railway. Open on the Fax 020 7916 5420 first Sunday of the month for events Email [email protected] and volunteer conservation work. Website https://ktcityfarm.org.uk/ Tel 020 7267 2310 Mill Lane Open Space and Action Group Phoenix Garden Situated in Mill Lane NW6 close to Entrance in St Giles’ Passage, West Hampstead tube station. The site off New Compton Street, WC2 is owned by the Council’s Education

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c/o 21 Stacey Street London Tel 020 7625 6260 WC2H 8DG Fax 020 7625 6260 Tel 020 7379 3187 Email [email protected] Open in daylight hours. Gardener on Open Monday-Friday 10am-6pm and site Tuesday-Thursday. some evening and weekend activities. Community centre with playgroup, Community organic garden with small crèche, sports hall, youth club, woodland, pond and bog garden, underfives soft room and manages the flower and herb beds, bird feeding Maygrove Peace Park football pitch. station and nest boxes. Castlehaven Community Centre Calthorpe Project Castlehaven Community Centre Calthorpe Project 33 Hawley Road 258-274 Grays Inn Road London London NW1 8RU WC1X 8LH Tel 020 7485 3386 Tel 020 7837 8019 Fax 020 7267 5762 Fax 020 7713 0321 Website www.castlehaven.org.uk Open Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Office open Monday-Friday Sat 11am-5pm 10am-5.30pm Organic community garden for local Programme of events and courses people to tend. Programme of including Over 60s’ day trips and activities for children and adults, holidays, Over 60s’ Tai Chi and dance including gardening classes for adults classes, Under-Fours’ Playtime, after with learning difficulties. Floodlit sports school club, sports pitches for hire. pitch for hire (marked for netball and Useful organisations five-a-side football). CABE space Sidings Community Centre CABE space Sidings Community The Tower Building Centre 150 Brassey Road 11 York Road off Maygrove Road London SE1 7NX London NW6 2BA Tel 020 7960 2400

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Fax 020 7960 2444 https://www.groundwork.org.uk/h Email [email protected] ubs/london/ Website www.cabespace.org.uk Environmental regeneration charity CABE Space works with local working on local projects such as authorities and other bodies landscaping and installing responsible for public space to help children’s play areas, increasing them provide a better service. the recreational use and security of public open spaces. Parks for London The overall aim of the London Parks and Green Spaces Forum is: “to promote a network of accessible quality green space, as a major contribution towards a healthier and more sustainable world city.” London Parks and Green Space Forum PP19b City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA

Tel 0118 946 9060 Fax 0118 946 9061 Website https://parksforlondon.org.uk/contact/

Groundwork Camden and Islington 12 Baron Street London N1 9LL

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Nature Conservation and Biodiversity Nature conservation is an important regular opportunities for local people element of how Camden’s extensive and children to take part in both range of parks, open spaces and practical conservation work and through nature reserves are managed. To a programme of wildlife events across ensure this happens effectively we our parks and open spaces. have a Nature Conservation (and We offer a more formal programme for Allotments) section within the Parks schools at Waterlow Park and the three Service. nature reserve sites we manage where the next generation can learn about We work to increase and improve the valuing nature and the environment habitats for wildlife across the Borough around them. through park management, improvement works and involvement in We also lead on the Camden planning applications and proposed Biodiversity Action Plan, a five year plan developments. The service also offers of action for wildlife and its habitats

28 across the Borough. This plan was the Borough. Copies of the Action Plan developed by a partnership of over 21 can be found on the website landowners and local community groups (www.camden.gov.uk) or by contacting coming together to prioritise action for Nature Conservation Section Alphabetical list of parks, addresses, features and travel details Site 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Travel details Adelaide Road B C11 31

Nature Reserve U Swiss Cottage

Adelaide Road NW3 R

Alf Barrett Playground B 59 68 91 168

Old Gloucester Street U Holborn/Russell Square

WC1 R No local station

Antrim Gardens and B 168 C11

Allotments U Belsize Park

Antrim Grove NW3 R Gospel Oak

Argyle Square Gardens B 10 30 46 73 91 214

WC1 U King’s Cross St Pancras

R King’s Cross

Bloomsbury Square B 68 91 168 188 U Holborn

Gardens WC1 R No local station

Branch Hill and B 268 210 U Hampstead

Spedan Close NW3 R Hampstead Heath

Broadhurst Copse B 328 139 C11 U

Broadhurst Gardens NW6 R West Hampstead

Brunswick Square B 68 91 168 188 U Russell Square

Gardens WC1 R No local station

Camden Gardens B 134 214 C2 29 253

Camden Street NW1 U Camden Town R Camden Road

Camden Square B 29 253 274 U Camden Town

Gardens NW1 R Camden Road

Cantelowes Gardens B 29 253 U Camden Town

Camden Road NW1 R Camden Road

Chalcot Square B 274 U Chalk Farm

Gardens NW1 R Camden Road

Clarence Gardens B C2 24 27 29 134 U Great

Regents Park Estate NW1 Portland Street R Euston

College Gardens B 46 29 134 214 253 C2

Royal College Street NW1 U Camden Town R Camden Road

Key 1 Locked at night 2 Playground 3 Tennis 4 Sports pitch 5 Public toilets 6 Café 7 Local attendant 8 Dog exercise area 9 Floral bedding displays 10 Conservation area 11 Historic site Key B Bus U Underground R Rail 2 9

Site 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Travel details Crabtree Fields B 10 24 29 73 134

30 Colville Place W1 U Goodge Street R No local station

Cumberland Market B C2 24 27 29 134 U Great

Regents Park Estate NW1 Portland Street R Euston

Elm Village Open Space B 46 274 U Camden Town

Barker Drive NW1 R Camden Road

Euston Square Gardens B 10 18 30 68 73 91 168 188 253

(East and West) U Euston

Euston Road NW1 R Euston

Falkland Place Open B 134 214 C2 U Kentish Town

Space NW5 R Kentish Town

Fortune Green Open B 328 C11

Space Fortune Green U West Hampstead

Road NW6 R West Hampstead

Goldington Crescent B 46 214 U Mornington Crescent

Gardens NW1 R King’s Cross

Hampstead Green B 168 268 C11 24 46 U Belsize Park

Rosslyn Hill NW3 R Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Road B 24 27 29 134

Open Space NW1 U Euston R Euston

Harrington Square B 24 27 29 134 253 168

Gardens NW1 U Mornington Crescent

R Euston

Highgate Enclosures and B 214 C2 C11

Grove Terrace Squares U Kentish Town

Highgate Road NW5 R Kentish Town

Highgate New Town B C11

Open Space U Archway

Raydon Street N19 R No local station

Iverson Road Open B 16 32 189 316

Space NW6 U Archway R

Judd Street Open B 10 30 73 91 46 214 U King’s

Space WC1 Cross St Pancras R King’s Cross

Kilburn Grange B 16 32 189 316 328 U Kilburn

Messina Avenue NW6 R Brondesbury

Leighton Crescent B 134 214 C2

Gardens U Kentish Town

Leighton Grove NW5 R Kentish Town

Lincoln’s Inn Fields B 68 91 168 188

WC2 U Holborn R No local station

Site 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Travel details Lismore Circus B C11 U Belsize Park

Lamble Street NW5 R Gospel Oak

Maygrove Peace Park B 16 32 189 316 U Kilburn

Maygrove Road NW6 R West Hampstead

32 Montpelier Gardens B 10 134 U Kentish Town

Brecknock Road NW5 R Kentish Town

Munster Square B C2 24 27 29 134

Laxton Place NW1 U Great Portland Street R Euston

Oakley Square B 168 214 253 24 27 29 46 134

Gardens NW1 U Mornington Crescent R Euston Polygon Road Open B 168 253 46 214

Space Chalton Street U Euston R Euston NW1 Pond Square N6 B 143 210 271 U Archway

R No local station

Primrose Gardens NW3 B 168 C11 268 U Belsize Park

R Gospel Oak

Purchese Street B 46 214

Open Space NW1 U King’s Cross St Pancras R King’s Cross Queen Square B 68 91 168 188

Gardens WC1 U Russell Square R Euston

Quex Road B 328 189 16 32 316 U Kilburn Park

Open Space NW6 R Kilburn High Road

Red Lion B 68 91 168 188

Square Gardens WC2 U Holborn R No local station

Regent Square B 46 10 30 73 91 214

Gardens WC1 U King’s Cross St Pancras R King’s Cross

Rochester Terrace B 29 253 U Camden Town

Gardens NW1 R Camden Road

Russell Nurseries and B 168 268 C11 24 46

Belsize Wood Nature U Belsize Park

Reserve Lawn Road NW3 R Hampstead Heath

Russell Square B 68 91 168 188

Gardens WC1 U Russell Square R Euston

St Andrew’s Gardens B 46 U Russell Square

Grays Inn Road WC1 R King’s Cross

St George’s Gardens B 68 91 168 188

Heathcote Street WC1 U Russell Square R King’s Cross 3 1

Site 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Travel details St George’s Terrace B 274 U Chalk Farm

Open Space NW1 R Camden Road

St Giles’ Churchyard B 10 24 29 73 134

St Giles’ High Street WC2 U Tottenham Court Road R No local station St James’ Gardens B 24 27 29 134 30 73

Cardington Street NW1 U Euston R Euston

St Martin’s Gardens B 46 24 27 29 134 168 214 253

Camden Street NW1 U Camden Town R Camden Road

34 St Pancras’ Gardens B 46 214

Pancras Road NW1 U Mornington Crescent R King’s Cross Sumatra Road B C11 328 139

Open Space NW6 U West Hampstead R West Hampstead Swiss Cottage B 328 139 C11

Open Space U Swiss Cottage

88 Avenue Road NW8 R West Hampstead

Talacre Open Space B 46 24 134 214 C2

Talacre Road NW5 U Chalk Farm R Kentish Town West Tavistock Square B 68 91 168 188

Gardens WC1 U Russell Square R Euston

The Warren B 10 24 29 73 134

Whitfield Place W1 U Warren Street R Euston

Waterlow Park B 143 210 271

Dartmouth Park Hill N19 U Archway R No local station Westbere Copse B C11

Nature Reserve U Kilburn

Westbere Road NW2 R Cricklewood

West End Green B 328 139 C11

West End Lane NW6 U West Hampstead R West Hampstead Whitfield Gardens B 10 24 29 73 134

Tottenham Court Road W1 U Goodge Street R No local station

Wicklow Street B 46

Open Space WC1 U King’s Cross St Pancras R King’s Cross

Index Iverson Road Open Space...... 5 Adelaide Road Nature Reserve...... 4 Judd Street Open Space...... 16 Alf Barrett Playground ...... 14 Kilburn Grance...... 5 Antrim Gardens ...... 4 Leighton Crescent Gardens...... 9 Argyle Square Gardens ...... 14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields...... 16 Bloomsbury Square Gardens ...... 14 Lismore Circus...... 9 Branch Hill and Spedan Close ...... 4 Maygrove Peace Park ...... 5 Broadhurst Copse...... 4 Montpelier Gardens ...... 10 Brunswick Square Gardens...... 14 Oakley Square Gardens...... 17 Camden Gardens ...... 14 Camden Square Gardens ...... 15 Polygon Road Open Space...... 17 Cantelowes Gardens ...... 15 Pond Square Gardens ...... 10 Chalcot Square Gardens ...... 15 Primrose Gardens ...... 5 Clarence Square Gardens, Purchese Street Open Space ...... 17 Munster Square Gardens and Queen Square Gardens ...... 17 Hampstead Road Open Space ...... 15 Quex Road Open Space ...... 5 College Gardens ...... 15 Crabtree Fields ...... 15 Red Lion Square Gardens...... 17 Cumberland Market ...... 15 Regent Square Gardens ...... 17 Rochester Terrace Gardens...... 17 Elm Village Open Space ...... 16 Russell Nurseries and Euston Square Gardens...... 16 Belsize Wood...... 10 Falkland Place Open Space ...... 9 Russell Square Gardens ...... 18 Fitzroy Park Allotments ...... 9 St Andrew’s Gardens ...... 18 Fortune Green Open Space and St George’s Gardens ...... 18 Hampstead Cemetery...... 4 St George’s Terrace Open Space...... 18 Goldington Crescent Gardens ...... 16 St Giles’ Churchyard ...... 19 St James’ Gardens...... 19 Hampstead Green...... 9 St Martin’s Gardens ...... 19 Harrington Square Gardens ...... 16 St Pancras’ Gardens ...... 19 Highgate Enclosures and Grove Sumatra Road Open Space ...... 6 Terrace Squares...... 9 Swiss Cottage Open Space ...... 6 Highgate New Town Open Space ...... 9

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Talacre Garens...... 10 Tavistock Square Gardens...... 19

The Warren...... 20 Waterlow Park ...... 10 Waterlow Park Centre ...... 11 Westbere Copse Nature Reserve ...... 6 Westcroft Estate Allotments ...... 6 West End Green ...... 6 Whitfield Gardens ...... 20 Wicklow Street Open Space...... 20