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Introduction…………………………………………2 Haringey Map ……………………………………4 Gallery ……………………………………………5 Circular Walk westof the Borough ………………6 Circular Walk in area …………12 Parks & Green Spaces in West Haringey …14-15 Circular Walk and Paddock ………16 ……………………………………19 Circular Walk and …20 Linear Walk ……………………22 Linear Walk Park Café Trail ………24 Alexandra Park …………………………………29 Greens and Commons …………………………30 BetweenLordshipLane and Wood Green High Road ……………………………………31 Community Gardens…………………………32-33 Off the Beaten Track ……………………………34 Haringey Health Walks …………………………35 ParksFriendsGroups……………………………36 Introduction

This walking book has been produced to showcase to describe than others, but you will always be many of the parks and green spaces in Haringey quite near to a road so you can’t get lost. 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 water, some are circular. The times given for the walks or if you want a picnic, but most of the walks are are approximate and are without stops or time good at any time of year. We did the Western spent exploring the places you pass through, Circular Walk in torrential rain, but still enjoyed it, which is recommended, and will be rewarding. especially as we dived into one of the many cafés So you will need to take that intoaccount. 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 and Haringey that are not included because they did some are not wheelchair accessible because the not fit easily into a walk and not because they are paths are not surfaced and can get very muddy not worth a visit! All parks are listed on the 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 bestwe can.Somewoodlandroutesareharder spaces! Rhododendrons in Alexandra Park 2 Haringey – A great place for walking This map of Haringey shows just how much green Ga lle ry space there is to explore across the Borough

Alexandra Palace from Priory Park Finsbury 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 W a l k Alexandra Wood A Circular W a l k in the West of the Borough PalaceStation GreenTube Taking in 2 public parks, woods, meadows, and wildlife naturereserves. Boating Wood Green Lake Common Distance 7.45km (4.6miles) Time2.5hrs Moderate Only parts of this walk areaccessible Nature Alexandra Pitchand Reserve Al e x a ndr a P a r k From the bus stop at Palace Putt Station walk Transport Links This historic park includes to the station and go over the Sports Alexandra Palace overground Trees in OpenSpace Alexandra Field woodland, open grassland, railway via the footbridge that 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 becomes and Moorgate (via Finsbury The the main road through the park, Park). There is no step free access Grove children’s playground, W3 Alexandra Palace Way. Walk at this station. The bus goes landscaped gardens, soft play there from Finsbury Park or adventure playground and Tree a little way up the road and pass Wood Green Tube or 184 from Top Adventure to entertain the a parking bay and 2 rough Looking out across from Wood Green, Turnpike Lane or kids! It also includes Alexandra roads on your left. Take the first Alexandra Park. BoundsGreen. small unsurfaced path down to Palace itself, see: 144 W7 134 43 102 your left. Keep on this path with , , , or bus all www.alexandrapalace.com, for the Palace’s Palm Court go to Broadway if what is on offer. You can get meadow on your left and it entrance. You will get great you want to start this walk from CranleyGardens some of the best views of London continues on into woodland on London views along thispath. Parkland Walk North Section (on a good day). your left and the pitch and putt Cross the road carefully at from the top of Muswell Hill (on Priory on yourright. the bus stop and then turn left. your right looking down the Hill). Park We start our walk at Alexandra Almost at the end of the pitch Around the bend you will see Highgate Palace Overground Station on and putt the path divides and you the Grove Car Park. Turn right MAP KEY Buckingham Road. You can start Wood take the right fork that heads before the steps to the car park Walk Route at Wood Green Tube, Piccadilly steeply up to Alexandra Palace. along a narrow hedged path Queen’sWood

Vale Railway Line, and walk to Alexandra Below the road, take the first keeping the car park on your For information about AlexandraPark d Crouch end

Palace Station going up Station surfaced path to the left and carry left. Before a brick bridge see the Friends of Alexandra Parkwebsite: Woo openSpace Rivers Road or get a W3 or 184 bus. on walking parallel to the road. leading to a park exit take a www.friendsofalexandrapark.org/ Parks& Being a circular walk, you can This path goes the length of the path uphill on your left following You will find maps and information about join the walkanywhere Palace and takes you back to the another side of the car park. walks you can do around AlexandraPark. Green spaces along theroute. road opposite 6 7 This path takes you past the New Highgate Take the third exit on the left, For information about ParklandWalk Tube For information about Friends information centre on Cranley Gate For information about New Gate, leaving the wood at see the Friends of Parkland Walkwebsite: Gate Muswell see the website: Queen’sWood your right, open on Sundays and pedestrian lights across Muswell https://www.parklandwalk.org.uk/ https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things- see the Friends of first saturday of the month 11- You will find maps and information about to-do/green-spaces/highgate-wood Hill Road where you enter Queen’s Wood 1pm. You will pass a small café. Parkland walk and what trees and flowers Queen’sWood. website: Stay on this path and you come you are likely to see. www.fqw.org.uk/ Caféand Highgate to a covered bridge that takes Once through the Cranley Gate Queen’s Wo o d Wood Café& You will find maps and toilets toilets you down and through a tunnel take the path to the left. This path information about under Muswell Hill, a busy main Depending on the season you Info and Football runs along the edge of the wood Queen's Wood is an ancient Queen’s wood and road. You will be in the can see a variety of trees and wildlifeHut and with houses visible on your left. woodland, continuously what you can do and cricket see there. Northern part of Parkland wildflowers. field Ignore any signs further on to the wooded since at least AD Walk, a long strip of land that At the end of the Parkland café and toilets to the right 1600. The wood principally Highgate Wood was once partly a railway and is Walk you will go under a bridge unless you want to visit them. consists of hornbeams and CapitalRing oaks. A wide varietyof birds Turn off here for Crouch now kept as a naturereserve. and up onto Muswell Hill Road. End Open Space and You will see the ornate metal playingfields Parkland W a l k gates to Highgate Wood Queen’s Wood (Cranley Gate) on your right just This northern section of the before a row of shops. Enter the Parkland Walk nature reserve is woodhere. 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 Wo o d hidden river, has itssource. 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 steps. wildlife, with many accessible some of the paths are quite At the bottom of the steps you woodland trails. There is a sports steep, uneven or cut into steps. come to a junction with a low ground where formal cricket and You will see the Café on wall to your right. Turn left here informal picnics and ball games your left and take the right fork and take the small unsurfaced can be enjoyed and also a well of the 2 paths ahead, which is path towards a metal gate. equipped children’s part of the Capital Ring. Stay Through the gate the path runs playground. There is also a on this path, passing a small through woodland between good café with toilets and an pond on your right. You come backs of houses and allotments. The Parkland Walk at the Northern information hut with leaflets and to a sign post and go straight At the end of this path turn left end near Muswell Hill trail guides nearby. Lush green trees in HighgateWood Wildlife pond in Queen’s Wood. on signposted QueensWood 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 thejunctionwithParkRoad. 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 PrioryPark. and playingfields. Take the path straight on, Priory P a rk 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 right, Exit into a carparking area on straight on past the children’s Nightingale Lane. Walk the The Friends Groups in both these green your right and continue on a playground. At the end of this whole length of the road and spaces have been established for many rough road with tennisand path is a café (with toilets) and you will see Alexandra Park years and do lots of work to improve, maintain and develop theirspaces. paddling pool ahead of you ahead. Turn right onto Newland and tennis courts to theleft. Road and walk along the edge For information about Crouch End Open Turn right at the café and then a of the sports field. At the end of Space see: little way along take a sharp left the field take a surfaced path http://www.crouchendopenspace.org and left again and walk through back into the park. This runs For dates of volunteer work days if you the ornamental garden. It has a along the nature reserve on your want to help with conservationwork. large ornate fountain, originally right which you could explore. For information about Priory Park see: from the churchyard of St Pauls This path joins a rough road that http://www.fopp-n8.org.uk/ Cathedral. This path takes you takes you back to the parking You will information on events in the park, out onto PrioryRoad. bay where you turn right to future projects the Friends are planning and The lush summer meadow of Crouch Turn left at Priory Road and Alexandra Palace Station on how to join theFriends End Open Space cross via the lights. Turn leftand Keeper’s Cottage in Highgate Wood 10 BedfordRoad. Circular W a l k A Circular W a l k in the W o o d 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) Time45minutes Easy pastit on stationroad. Finsbury We start and end this walk at path through another strip of White Hart N ightinga le Gardens . Gardens green space between the backs LaneRec From the Tube cross the busy of houses until you reach Tree.s in Nightingale Gardens Nightingale Road. High Road to Station Road. This is a thin strip of ornamental Walk up Station Road and cross green space with trees, shrubs over at the first pedestrian lights. Transport Links and flowers in summer. Finsbury Gardens White HartLane Keep walking in the same Follow the path through the Wood Green is on the Piccadilly direction and cross over the Line. There are several bus routes middle of the space until you Cross Nightingale Road and road when you come to a mini that pass through or terminate Pergola in Barratt Gardens meet Road where you will enter Finsbury Gardens, 29 141 roundabout and enter the park there. and from Manor MAP KEY you turn left. You will see a red, a small green space with a House, 230 and W4 from gate. This is Wood Green crossing. You can see a very flint Church at Braemar Avenue. children’s play area and some , 221 or 184 from Walk Route Common/Barratt Gardens. Crescent Go across Bounds Green Road Bounds Green, 67 from Stamford Parks & short exposed section of the Gardens rt fun wooden animal sculptures. Hill, 239 from . New River via pedestrian lights and take a . Turn left after the Walk straight through the Stua Green spaces Wo o d Green crossing, cut across a green path across Trinity Gardens and park and then turn right at Truro Common (Barratt and cross Park Avenue via Trinity Road. Keep straight on Road. Stay on this road and you another pedestriancrossing. alonga will eventually reach the High Gardens) Walk straight across the Road. Turn right then cross at the For information about local groups in theseparks: green space, Avenue Gardens, pedestrian lights. You will then Avenue Wood Green NightingaleGardens This is a small green space with and then take the path to the Gardens Tube see the entrance to another park 07908 164105 a beautiful brick pergola with right before the road which is in front of you. Avenue Gardens/Wood Green Common wisteria in thespring/summer. part of the New River Path and [email protected] Walk through the pergola straight on is Nightingale Woodside P a r k Finsbury Gardens and turn right across the green Gardens. Before this you may www.bowespark.org.uk field to the children’s play area. wish to take a detour left up Woodside Park is a medium Friends of Woodside Park Wood Green Go through the play area and Dorset Road from Avenue sized park with a dip in the www.facebook.com/Friends-of-Woodside- Common out to Station Road. Turnleft Gardens to see some lovely Wooden sculpture – Finsbury middle, housing children’splay Park-219106644917319 and cross via thepedestrian cottages. Gardens Crescent Gardens in Wood Green 12 13 Until the early 20th century prevented grazing animals from W hi te Hart Lane Parks and Green Spaces in West Haringey Transport Links Rec Coldfall Wood covered more the surrounding Albert Road than twice its current extent, Common and Horseshoe 234 bus from Muswell Hill and a This is a large recreation reaching south to the houses Farm (as they then were) from short walk up Everington Road 134 43 ground for which, as we go to or bus from Muswell Hill Recreation Ground bordering . The entering thewood. or Highgate and walk up Wilton print, Haringey Council are southern section was felled and One stream flows North Road and EveringtonRoad working on a new masterplan. 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 Parliament Square. Oliver residential development and beneath the Playing Fields and take a right fork that skirts a schools. eventually joining PymmesBrook. For information about Coldfall Wood Tambo was a leader of the see: www.coldfallwoods.co.uk disused paddling pool. Exit the Friends of Coldfall African National Council purchased The 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 andtalks Woodside Park along the the apartheid years remaining section is now owned talks and conservationwork. perimeter of the park until you in South who and managed by the London and kick about area. The reach some buildings and was exiled from his Borough of Haringey with much Seasonal Muswell Hill Friends of Woodside Park hold pedestrian lights where you Albert Road Recreation Ground native country, help from The Friends of Coldfall Pond Coldfall Wood a regular Jazz Festival there in cross. Turn right and continue up Wood PlayingFields provides a wide range of coming to live near . Islingtonand White Hart Lane until you reach late summer. sporting and recreational the park where his Coldfa ll The Wood is dominated by St Pancras Walk diagonally acoss the a left fork, Stuart Crescent. Cross facilities. childrenplayed. oak standards and also Cemetery To 234 bus to park above the play area and the road to the green opposite, Whether you fancy a game contains hornbeams, Hazel, MuswellHill Crescent Gardens Wo o d past a small former bowling club . Take the path of tennis or basketball, are Transport Links Beech, Mountain ash and Wild building, now used as a nursery. round the green to the left. You interested in bowls, or simply Service Trees. After the building your path will be walking parallel to the want to play a game of football, 184 bus from Bounds Green or Coldfall Wood is an ancient Areas of coppicing in the Wood Green/Turnpike Lane wood in Muswell Hill, N10 forks off to the right. Stay on this High Road. Cross over Ewart Albert Road Recreation Ground 102 bus from Muswell Hill or wood have been extended to Ancient Coldfall path and keep right along the Grove and the path continues has all you need. BoundsGreen. 1NT. It covers an area increase levels of light and ditch and Primary perimeter of the park. You will through this formal strip of land. There is also a good It is a short walk from Bounds ofapproximately 14 hectares create more welcoming bank School reach a road, Earlham Grove, You will pass the back of a 1st children’s playground and some Green Tube, , and is presently surrounded by entrances to the wood, as well where you turn left and almost World War memorial which lovely trees and flowers. along Durnsford Rd (N227XL) allotments, the St. Pancras and as enhancing the biodiversity Allotments immediately right along you may want to go round and The Pavillion Café provides Cemetery, and value of the wood. Newnham Road which goes see. When you leave this green meals and snacks and also residential roads. It is the site of The western and northern For information about Albert Rec see the past Earlham Primary School. space you will be on the High hosts activities and is the base the discoveries which first led to boundaries are demarcated by Friends of Albert Road Recreation Ground Turn down a small passage on Road and a very short walk back for the Friends of Albert Rec. www.farrg.org.uk, or psandc.co.uk for the recognition that glaciation the remains of an ancient your left and this takes youinto to Wood GreenTube. You can also see the bust of information on events at the PavillionCafé had once reached the south of woodbank with a ditch on the White Hart LaneRec. Oliver Tambo, sculpted by Ian . outer side. This would have 14 15 Circular W a l k . Py mmes Brook, , Marshes and the Paddock Transport Links MAP KEY Walk Route Taking in rivers, a nature reserve and marsh meadows Tottenham Hale is on the . There is a bus station outside Railway 41 Distance 4km (2.5miles) Time 1 hour Easy Accessibility could be difficult in wetweather the Station. You can get bus Rivers Tottenha from Turnpike Lane or Crouch End, m W4, 123 or 230 from Wood Parks& Marshes We start and end this walk at Cross and you soon you will see the gateto Green and Turnpike Lane or Tottenham Hale tube station on will see Waterside Café on your The Paddock on your left. TottenhamGreen. 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 hill For information about thearea over the railway. Cross over Mill The Paddock is a Community see the Friends of Entrance to the Paddock Mead Way via traffic lights and website: www.tottenhammarshes.org for Nature Reserve which has been Lockwood almost immediately go through a information on walks and conservation Walk past the lock and stay on developed as a haven for birds, activities Reservoir metal gate on your left which the towpath with the Lee trees, flowers and nature lovers. takes you up the Pymmes Brook. Down Lane Navigation on your left and you The area is now managed by an You can contact the Friends of the Paddock The Brook will be on your right Park will see painted narrow boats active friends group who are at: [email protected] along with a Lea Valley View from Stonebridge Lock moored on both sides of the working to improveit. informationboard. river. You are now walking Once inside The Paddock Totte nha m parallel to the way you came you will see a small wildlife Pymmes Brook back towards Ferry Lane again. pond on your left. Keep on past Marshes When you reach the Ferry the pond and stay on the path in Pymmes Brook front of you which runs around The is a tributary Lane exit from the river you have Tottenha The Paddock of the River Lea which it joins at At the end of the allotments, the to go up a fairly steep cobbled the perimeter of . At m Hale Tottenham Hale. It starts in path enters Tottenham Marshes. ramp (this could be difficult for one point the path passes by a Hadley Wood, Barnet. This is large area of grassland, wheelchair users) to the road picnic area in a dip on your left. The Walk along the towpath by wildflower meadows and and then turn left. (If you were to The path carries on round, back Paddock Pymmes Brook and you will waterways with a variety of carry on under the bridge, you to the gate where youentered. soon see some well used plants trees and wildlife. You will would eventually reach Turn right on to Ferry Lane and allotments on your left, one of soon reach a picnic area with a Markfield Park where there is retrace your steps to Tottenham The Paddock which is run by Living Under couple of public art installations another café and toilets.) Carry Hale crossing over Mill Mead One Sun, a local charity and where you turn right to on up Ferry Lane and cross the Way again. community organisation. StonebridgeLock. river Lea. Very Path to Tottenham Marshes 16 17 Ra ilw a y 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 it since the site was adopted Local Nature 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 centuryplot. 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 acrossHaringey. 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 due still passes by ittoday. and in 1975 was used as a to its urban location next to the Minibeast ‘village’ Social Services community railway line and near the New centre. After this closed a River. There are a variety of As well as plants, there small group of local ecologists habitats including woodland, are numerous mini-beasts in took an interest in the site in meadows, a pond, scrubland loggeries and the ‘Bug the 1980s and started to and marsh. Skyscraper’, amphibians in develop it as a wildlife area. Over 200 different types and around the pond and a They planted trees, dug a of wildflowers havebeen variety of birds and bats. pond and built a wooden Railway Fields is open 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 was Events page: Remains of the tracks from when soon opened again with great www.friendsofrailwayfields Railway fields was a goods yard. local support and it was Wildlife pond. .wordpress.com Colourful boats on the River Lea . 19 Circular W a l k MAP KEY Water . Fi.nsbury Park and N e w River Path Walk Route Parks& Railway Taking in a Park, a waterway and a reservoir. You are now in Hackney. Green spaces If you decide to take the Easy longer route roundthe Distance 4.6km (2.9miles) Time 1.5 hours The New River part of walk is notaccessible reservoir you leave the New River Path and turn left across We start this walk at Manor ground turn left on a path that Hertford to New River Head, the bridge and then right House Tube. If coming by Tube takes you back to the perimeter Islington. It was built in the 17th where Woodberry Wetlands take the exit for The Park, exit road and to the New River. Century to bring fresh water into is signposted. The gate to the 6. Enter Finsbury Park through Turn right before the river and London and still has a role to FINSBURYPARK wetlands is open 9-4.30pm the large gate with the Park follow the path next to the river play to thisday. and the gate at the other end, View Café on yourright. fence which bends left, down to Follow the New River Path open till 5.30pm. Take the left Manor the park exit at Green Lanes. along the river (This is not EastReservoir path around theReservoir. House Trees in Finsbury Park Cross the road via pedestrian wheelchair accessible as the Finsbury P a r k You will reach the lovely Coal tube lights and turn left to find the where the path splits and then path is rough grass and can be House Café. Carry on along a CoalHouse green metal entrance gate for Café This grade II listed Park was stay on the same path until its muddy and there are some boardwalk. This ends up BoatingLake the New RiverPath. officially opened in 1869. It is end. Turn left through the steps). You will have to exit the crossing the New River and large and has a lot to offer in Mackenzie Garden (this is part path at Seven Sisters Road and takes you back onto the New terms of recreation and nature. of the Capital Ring, a round- The N e w River will see the entrance to the River Path where you turn left. There is a tree trail available on London Path). You will see the continuing path on the opposite Follow the river path and cross This incredible feat of the Park’s Friends’website. playground in front of you and side of the road but turn left and Woodberry Grove/ Lordship engineering flows for 38 km The facilities include a then turn right towards the go across 2 sets of lights to get Road and pick up the path West (24 miles) from NewGauge, boating Lake, children’s boating and wildlife lake. Take there as this is a very busy road. again on the other side. With Reservoir playgrounds, basketball, the path round the lake to the left The river bends round to the right the West Reservoir visible on To bowling club, tennis, café and which runs between the lake and and you continue until you reach your left, keep on the New Manor WoodberryWetlands toilets, skatepark, picnic areas, café and it eventually joins the a bridge. At this point you can River Path and when you come House formal gardens, kick about perimeter park road. Follow the either carry on along the New to the bridge cross it and then For information about FinsburyPark area, Track and outdoorgym. road with tennis courts on your River Path or take a slight detour turn right to get to Green Lanes Transport Links see the Friends of Finsbury Parkwebsite: Walk straight, cross the park left and take the first path on your to go around the East Reservoir in with the Castle Climbing Manor House is on the Piccadilly Line, one stop www.thefriendsoffinsburypark.org.uk perimeter road and take the left right which is again signposted Woodberry Wetlands. You will Centre on your left. Cross over from Finsbury Park on the Victoria Line. Several bus For information abouttheNew River routes that stop at Manor House: 29 and 141 from hand path of the 2 opposite, lake andcafé. rejoin the New River Path further and turn right onto Green contactthe New River ActionGroup: Wood Green/Turnpike Lane, 253 from Stamford signposted to the boating lake Follow this path and opposite along. Lanes and walk or take Hill and 254 or 279 from SevenSisters www.newriver.org.uk and café. Keepleft the entrance to thesports New River Path a bus back to ManorHouse. FinsburyPark 20 stations 21 Linear W a l k station, next to the railway bridge turn right, walking with Muswell Parkland W a l k Finsbury Park Transport Links ALEXANDRAPARK into where it runs Hill Road in sight on your right A long nature reserve and a wood next to the railway on the left and until you get to CranleyGate Tube the tennis courts on the right. You at the other end of the woods. Finsbury Park -Victoria Line and the Piccadilly Line. will see a footbridge across the Exit here and turn left. There is Distance 6.5km (4 miles) Time 1.5 hours Easy Buses railway on your left that takes you an underpass under Muswell To Finsbury Park to the Oxford Road start of the Hill Road that puts you on the 29 from Wood Green & The Parkland Walk Local View from Parkland Walk Parkland Walk on your right. start of the second part of TurnpikeLane Wheelchair accessibility Nature Reserve is a 3.5km Having reached the end of this Parkland Walk. 259 from Edmonton via Seven is not perfect. Thewhole (2.2miles) green walkway. It section at Highgate, for the most The Friends of Parkland Sisters & ManorHouse route now has a firm surface Remains of the station platform on W7 from Muswell Hill via follows part of the course of the with almost level ac- cess at the direct route to the second section, Walk do a variety of voluntary parkland walk at Crouch Hill Crouch End old railway that used to run Oxford Road en- trance at the turn right into Holmesdale Road conservation work days to To Muswell Hill between Finsbury Park and Finsbury Park end and at and then right, uphill along improve the Walk and its 144 Edmonton via Wood Green Alexandra Palace. Blythwood Road, with a Archway Road, past the tube biodiversity and campaign on & Turnpike Lane The Parkland Walk is a reasonably firm surface station to the Woodman pub. the Walk’s behalf. 134 viaArchway/Highgate 102 Edmonton via BoundsGreen between. There are some stoney chance for people to enjoy the Cross over Muswell Hill Road at 43 via Archway &Highgate green environment in the very parts and a few slopes. There is the lights and then turn right to heart of the city. It was opened in a steep slope at the Holmesdale see the entrance into Highgate 1984 following extensive re- Road exit. It can get very muddy Woods on your left. Enter the Manor QUEEN’S surfacing and improvements to afterrain. park and House WOOD FINSBURYPARK access. It is London's longest Wild flowers beside the path. Local Nature Reserve and Finsbury Park) to Holmesdale HIGHGATE supports a remarkable range of Road in Highgate. A second WOOD habitats and wildlife. Over three section in Muswell Hill includes a hundred species of wild flower viaduct with terrific views over have been recorded and it is London. probably the only place in This walk starts at Finsbury Haringey where ivy clambers up Park station. You could end at fig trees. Foxes, butterflies and a Highgate or carry on through MAP KEY Highgate For information about Parkland Walk Highgate Wood to the second Parkland Walk vast array of birds are spotted The WoodmanPub Tube see the Friends of Parkland Walk on a daily basis. part of the Parkland Walk. Connecting Routes website: www.parkland-walk.org.uk The Parkland Walk is in two Start the walk from Stroud You will find information on walks and sections. The longestsection Green Road. Follow the Capital Entrances/Exits conservationvolunteering. Finsbury Park goes from Oxford Road (near Ring Link path oppositethe 22 23 Linear W a l k . . BRUCE To ttenham Park Café Trail . Lane CASTLE MAP KEY RisleyRoad PARK TOWER Stonebridge Walk Route Taking in 8 Parks, Tottenham Marshes, Pymmes Brook and the River Lea (andcafés) GARDENS Lock Railway Tower GardensRd PARK Distance 9.53km (6 miles) Time3hrs Easy All parts of this walk areaccessible LordshipLane HARTINGTON Rivers To Wood PARK Green Parks& Tube This amble through Tottenham is good for a full english breakfast soon on your left you will see the There are Friends Groups in most LORDSHIP TOTTENHAM gated entrance to Downhills RECREATION MARSHES Green spaces all on paths or pavements so is to see you on yourway! Tottenham Parks, see: GROUND accessible to wheelchair users. The Friends of Chestnuts Park before a café. Friends of Chestnuts Park Cafés www.friendsofchestnuts.org.uk We are describing the walk park have done a lot of work Bruce Friends of Downhills Park from Chestnuts Park in St.Ann’s improving the park, including Downhills P a rk Grove Lee Navigation www.ccurrie.me.uk/downhills Road, N15 to Markfield Park planting anorchard. Pymmes RiverLea This is another historic park with Friends of Lordship Rec DOWN near Tottenham Hale but the Leaving the café behind you Brook a very established Friends www.lordshiprec.org.uk LANE walk can be done in either walk towards the children’s play PARK Transport Links Group who have done much to Lordship Hub direction or done in sections. area. Follow the path around the www.lordshiphub.org.uk transform thespace. Chestnuts Park buses: main field with the playground Friends of BruceCastlePark Take the gated entrance 67 from Wood Green, on yourright. www.friendsofbrucecastlepark.org.uk Tottenha with a commercial café on the To Turpike Lane or Turn left at the community centre Friends of Down Lane Park fdlp.org.uk m Hale Stamford Hillor right. Walk up this path and Turnpike and pass the outdoor gym on Living Under One Sun Lane 341 from straight on around a circle with www.livingunderonesun.co.uk/ DOWNHILLS your right. The path continues Tube Northumberland Park Friends of Tottenham Marshes PARK TOTTENHAM picnic tables and pasta GREEN or Manor House stops through an avenue of www.tottenhammarshes.org Friends at St Ann’s Hospital, St plane trees. Turn right at of Markfield Park Ann’s Road opposite the end on the perimeter www.friendsofmarkfieldpark.org.uk park Café path which bends right. Markfield Beam Engine Markfield Park: With the basketball court www.mbeam.org Tottenham Hale Tube on your right turn down a Seven Sisters Tube 41 Plane trees in Chestnuts Park bus to Tottenham short alley on your left to Sculpture of people with a local Cornwall Road. Turn left Hale via Turnpike connection in Downhills Park: Luke Seven Lane, CrouchEnd Chestnuts P a rk and walk the length of Howard, Namer of Clouds; Nicola CHESTNUT W4, 230 and 123 bus S PARK Sisters road to West Green Adams, the first woman to win an to Tottenham Hale via Our walk starts at the Chestnuts Road. Turn left and cross Olympic Boxing Gold; and Walter Turnpike Lane/Wood Café on St Ann’s Road opposite the road via the crossing. Tull, one of the first afro-Caribbean Green St. Ann’s Hospital. This caféis Turn right and thenvery footballers in the English League. South 24 Tottenham 25 children’s play area. After the air theatre, The Shell, on your Garden until you reach the T on play area take the second right right. Stay on this path with a the Green Café, especially good path before the gated gardens hedged football field on your forafternoontea. (The Italian Gardens) which right. At the end of the path there Take the exit from the park goes past the tennis courts to the is a small building which is a bike nearest to the café and cross the Downhills Café with tables project and to the left of that is the crossing on Lordship Lane. Turn outside. This café does meals, main park exit out onto Lordship left and walk to the end of the sandwiches, cakes and snacks Lane. Cross Lordship Lane via the road where you cross Tottenham and has publictoilets. crossing and go straight on along High Road onto Lansdowne After visiting the café retrace Waltheof Avenue. At the first mini Road via pedestrian lights. Keep your steps to the Italian Gardens roundabout turn right up Tower going straight and take the first The Lee Navigation as seen from Ferry Lane. and turn right into them. Half Gardens Road and cross it. You turning on your right, Burlington way along there is a low gate on are now in Tower Gardens, a Road. This takes you to of the park. Take a left fork and basketball court on your right. your left which takes you into a historic conservation area, built HartingtonPark. go straight on past the tennis Exit the park onto Park View wooded area. There is a rough for London workers in the early The old oak in Bruce CastlePark courts, refurbished due to Road. Turn left and then at the path straight on across the wood 20thCentury. Hartington P a rk pressure from the active Friends main road turn left again. Pass that takes you to a wide path before the Roundway bends Group, and you will see a low the first set of traffic lights and at round to the right. At the end of where you turn right. At the end Tower Gardens Take the path diagonally across building on your left which the next set cross the road to the the road is Church Lane and the of this path is Downhills Park The Wildlife Lake at LordshipRec the park to the right hand corner, houses Tottenham Café Connect, Tottenham Hale bus station and P a r k entrance to Bruce CastlePark. Road. exiting onto Green. a Community Hub with café and train stationforecourt. spur off to the left to return to the Lordship Hub, where there is a Some way along Tower Gardens Opposite, take Parkhurst Road. growingspace. Walk straight past the Station Lordship Rec main path. Walk past a park café and public toilets. You can Road on your left you will see the P a r k Cross over Dowsett Road and Go straight on past the café and exit the bus station on to entrance on your left and you get toasties and other snacks red brick entrance to Tower keep going up Ladysmith Road. and the path bends off to the FerryLane whereyouturnleft. Go across the pedestrian lights will see a large gap in the hedge here and also bird food for Gardens Park. Follow the path Enter the park where there is a Take the first left up Mafeking right with the children’s play and then you will enter Lordship on your right. Turn right here and feeding the birds on the lake. round the park to the exit children’s playground and turn Road. Walk to the end of the area on your left anda Totte nha m Recreation Ground (the Rec for enter the model traffic area. Pass Lordship Hub with the opposite and slightly to your left right up the path. You will see a road into Park View Road where Marshes short). This park was totally (Watch out for kids on bikes). outdoor gym on your left. Take a onto Risley Avenue. Turn right large red brick building which is you cross over and can enter regenerated in 2012 after This is a historic area that was left at the end of this path and go and carry on to the end where Bruce Castle Museum with a very Down Lane Park through a gate Walk past some high rise flats successful campaigning by local opened by the Minister of across the Moselle River via a there are a few shops and some interesting local history a little to theleft. and cross Mill Mead Road via residents in the Friends Group. Transport in 1938. Walk along wooden bridge (this is pedestrian lights on the collection. Take the path round pedestrian lights. Almost Walk down the path with the the central path and past a Haringey’s hidden river which is Roundway on your left. Cross the the left side of the building but Dow n Lane P a r k immediately on your left you will woodland on your right or walk paddling pool and children’s mostly underground from Roundway, turn right and carry don’t exit the park onto the main see a gate to a path and an in the woodland along the rustic playground and you will see a Highgate). Carry on straight on up All Hallows Road road. Take a path to the left past Once in the park, take the path information board about path to enjoy the trees. Takea lake and a yellowbuilding, with the skate park and open the HolocaustMemorial to the right along theperimeter Down Lane Park Tottenham Marshes and the 26 27 River Lea. Follow this path with Turn right and walk past the Boating Lake andCafé a stream on your right which is lock on the towpath, with the GoApe Pymmes Brook. On your left, river on your left. You will see Information Alexandra through the fence, you will see lots of colourful narrow boats. Alexandra Park Grove Centre Palace allotments, some of which You are now walking back to Café belong to a community Ferry Lane but this time along the organisation which is called LeeNavigation. Some of the brightly Living Under One Sun. At Ferry Lane, do not exit up TheGrove painted walls Pitchand Along the path you will enter the cobbled ramp to the road but of the former Putt an area of marsh meadow. Keep go on under the road. You will filter beds in indoor Adventure straight on until you reach a then have the river on your left Markfield Park play picnic area with public art and Pymmes Brook on your right that you will Sports installations and there is a path as they come together. see as you Field off to the right leading to You will pass lots of residential enter the park Nature Stonebridge Lock. You go across buildings and pass under 2 from the River Reserve the Pymmes Brook over to the Lee railway bridges and soon you Lea Navigation with the Waterside will see the gate to Markfield Colourful boats on the Boating Lake in the shadow of the Palace Café to yourleft. Park on yourright. This is the end of the walk. M a r k f i e l d P a r k Alexandra Park Either walk back along the river was opened There is a pitch and putt Entering the park from the river, to Ferry Lane and Tottenham Hale as a Victorianleisure Park course, a boating lake, a you will pass some brightly or walk past the café and the over 150 years ago. variety of places to eat,a The Park’s 196 acres of painted walls and past these you Museum and then turn right past The ‘People’s Park’ has Farmer’s Market most Grade II listed English will see the Markflield Café with the car park and then left again. panoramic viewsof London’s sundays, a skate park, skyline Heritage parkland is toilets. You go under the railway into which aresecond to landscaped gardens, an managed by the Alexandra Next to the café there is a Markfield Road. Keep on to the none, stretchingfrom Canary indoor soft play area and a Park and Palace Charitable museum housing a Victorian end of the road where you will Wharf to St Paul’s Cathedral recent addition, ‘Go Ape’. Trust, with support from an Beam Engine, as the site was join Broad Lane. There are buses and the Shard and on a clear In addition to activities in active, local volunteer group, Friends of Alexandra Green below the palace where once a sewage pumping station. there or you can walk left for day you can evensee the the Park there are also events the Park you can get great views of London You can still see the remains of Seven Sisters or right for Crystal Palace’s transmitter. in the Palace itself, with its , who host nature walks the filter beds. On some Sundays Tottenham Hale. On a Sunday, if There are a huge variety of indoor skating rink and newly and activities within the you are able to see the beam you finish at Seven Sisters, you activities on offer and it is a refurbished Victorian Theatre grounds throughout the year Friends of Alexandra Park website: engine in action. Check could walk up Tottenham High fantastic place to spend a which is scheduled to reopen and help run an information www.friendsofalexandrapark.org/ whole day! in December2018. [email protected] or call 017 Road to Tottenham Green for the centre at theweekends. Stonebridge lock on the Lee Navigation 0726 0695. Sunday Market,11-4pm. 28 29 Greens and Commons To . ttenham Duck e tts Betw een Lordship Lane and Wo o d 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

M a r k e t Duckett’s Common is a truly urban park bordered on 2 sides Chapman’s by busy main roads, Turnpike Green Lane and Green Lanes and Turpike Lane Tube. It is one of Haringey’s successstories. The basketball courts are always in use by local young Wood Green Tube people and the well-equipped Westbury Banks Nature outdoor gym and children’s Belmont Rec : on Boundary Road Reserve: on Westbury Avenue playground are always busy and Downhills ParkRoad Lordship N22. Since June 2017, local too. Now there is a small is a small recreation ground with a Rec resident volunteers have spent refreshment kiosk which means children’s play area and picnic many hours clearing this once Tottenham Green was that more people sit in the park www.facebook.com/Friends- space. See: derelict site. of-Belmont-RecMannock-Road-Allotments- redesigned in 2015 to make it and socialisethere. http://grown22.com/westbury a better public space. The 267731280891/ Friends of Tottenham Green do Westbury regular volunteer gardening Banks sessions and have created a beautiful wildflowergarden. Russell Park BelmontRec Turnpike Every Sunday, 11-4pm, there is (left): on LaneTube a market with local food Willingdon Park Road producers and street food. The Road, N22, Downhills Green is a short walk from Russell Avenue Park , Tottenham and Mark Road. High Rd, N15 4RY. It has children’s www.facebook.com/friendsoftot play areas, gym tenhamgreen equipment, beautiful Chapman’s Green: on Lordship Lane www.tottenhamgreenmarket. seating areasand 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 teaetc... 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 & Priory make thingshappen. community garden. Anyone is Roads, N8 8NB. Bus routes 144, The local volunteers work The Gardens welcome to join in with work W7, W3 stop nearby. It is under the umbrella of the Bowes Community days, looking after the garden, overseen by Friends of Priory Park Community Association in Garden tucked growing fruit & vegetables, Common. partnership with the Parks away in grafting trees, chatting to Contact: 07951 905 490 Department. They have created Doncaster green space for the whole Gardens, in the shade of community to enjoy, especially the railway that those who don’t have their own runs through 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 over the New River and they was care for Finsbury Gardens. created in 2005 by mothers of Buses 329 or 141 up Green many cultures wanting to reduce Lanes to end of MyddletonRd. isolation, gain skills and make Gardens residents who live in the their neighbourhood safer. The Flowers in Myddleton Road Community Garden, N22 8LZ www.bowespark.org.uk/groups Residents Gardens area. LUOS brings people together – /myddleton-road-garden-group. Associationis The Garden wasopened Myddleton Road Community and trees. There are also a supporting each other to improve run by the residents of the in 2002 and is open 365 days Garden on Myddleton Road, themed children’s bench and a lives, services and Gardens neighbourhood. They a year. The Residents host many N22 8LZ was opened in 2003. wooden train. Residents tend neighbourhoods. They run the are concerned with quality-of- events there throughout the It is a welcoming green space in their wildlife garden, with the LUOS community allotment in life issues in general and year. The garden is in the heart of . 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 the diversity of bees, butterflies, Tottenham Hale by the River Lea trees, community gardening, Stanhope Rd., N4 1HX. sunshine, have a picnic, or join insects and wildlife. They sowed and Tottenham Café Connect, children's clubs, Community Buses 29 or141 on Green in with somegardening! a wild flower meadow in 2010. a community hub and food Wardens Schemeand 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, flower looked after by people living in Park. association is open to local gardensresidents.blogspot.com. Part of the Priory Common Orchard 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 Pa ignton Brunsw ick He a lth Haringey Council in partnership with Fusion Park Park The walks are graded: 1: 15 mins or less, 2: 30mins or less, 3: 30 mins ormore 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 can get training and become Road, N15 6NT has a Mon 11.00 Tottenham Green Pool & Fitness reception area 1 playground and naturalplay a Haringey Walk Leader. area. It also has Mon 9.20 Lordship Rec, gates at traffic lights Downhills Park Road, N17 3 Contact: 020 8885 7307 a community Mon 11.00 North Gate Down Lane Park, Parkview Road, N17 3 or [email protected] square with Mon 10.15 Outside Stonecroft Children’s Centre, N8 7HR 3 concrete chess 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 Park Lane, N17 3 tennis. Thereis Weds North Gate Down Lane Park, Parkview Road, N17 a lovely mosaic and sometiled 11.00 3 pillars and a bespoke, very Weds 6.30 Café Forks & Green, West Green Road, N15 4AB Spring/summer 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 Weds 1.15/30 Highgate Station ticket gates, N6 5UA 3 [email protected] railway line at Seven Sisters on 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 Thurs 9.15 Downhills Park Road Gate, Belmont Recreation Ground 2 of Haringey’s hidden large adventure play refurbishment and name change 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, Fri N8 9LP. Stationers Park run a outdoor gym and table tennis 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 featurerunning volunteers. improvements are planned. Sat 11.45 St Pauls Church N17 0HH 3 through it and a picnic area. www.facebook.com/Stationers friendsofbrunswickpark@gmail. There is a good children’s Park com Group walks are run by friendly, supportive, speciallytrained 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 writtenby about raising our voices park and producepamphlets Joan Curtis, Friends of Lordship Rec about what matters to our •apply for grants for some of communities and taking the above and otherprojects Photographs ‘ownership’ of our lives, local The Haringey Friends of Parks facilities and areas and then The following photos providedby Forum is the umbrella members of Tottenham Photography Club: seeking improvements. 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, p30right 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 Mustafa Suleman: p18, p27 top right, improvements and more people lives of all sections of the p28 bottom left,BC using it, then get together with community. The Forum discusses 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, toprow existing one! Park users work borough's green spaces. See Jae Davis: p15 top left Living Under One Sun: p33 top right with the Council, local schools, more on Friends Groups on: Friends of Lordship Rec:p36 conservation and community www.haringeyfriendsofparks. groups to promote, protect and org.uk All other photos: JoanCurtis improve their localspaces. 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 better and a National organisation: maintenance, and also The National Federation of improvements Parks and Green Spaces – www.natfedparks.org.uk. •publicise their park and 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 workdays represent the voices of Friends Groups across theUK. Premier Print Group Wildlife Habitats ‘to let’ in Priory Common Orhard 36 or parkevents Printed by Published in July 2018 by Friends of Lordship Rec www.lordshiprec.org.uk

In partnership with: Haringey Friends of Parks Forum www.haringeyfriendsofparks.org.uk Lordship Hub www.lordshiphub.org.uk £ 1 w he re Fundedby sold Blossom by the tennis courts in Downhills Park Bruce Castle Museum in Bruce CastlePark