Contents Introduction…………………………………………2 Haringey Map ……………………………………4 Gallery ……………………………………………5 Circular Walk westof the Borough ………………6 Circular Walk in Wood Green area …………12 Parks & Green Spaces in West Haringey …14-15 Circular Walk Lea Valley and Paddock ………16 Railway Fields ……………………………………19 Circular Walk Finsbury Park and New River …20 Linear Walk Parkland Walk ……………………22 Linear Walk Tottenham Park Café Trail ………24 Alexandra Park …………………………………29 Greens and Commons …………………………30 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 Coldfall Wood New River Path The Paddock Barratt Gardens Nightingale Gardens Downhills Park Friends Groups in Haringey There are 40+ Friends Groups active in parks and green spaces in Haringey. They do everything from clearing litter and conservation work to organising Most public green spaces in Haringey are managed by Haringey events, talks and walks. If you want to get information Council Parks Service. For more information about all parks in about a Friends Group near you then see: Haringey see Parks A-Z on www.haringey.gov.uk www.haringeyfriendsofparks.org.uk. Lordship Rec Highgate Wood Woodside Park Queen’s Wood 4 5 Circular 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 Alexandra Palace Station walk Transport Links This historic park includes to the station and go over the Sports Alexandra Palace overground Trees in Crouch End 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 Hertford 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 London 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 Muswell Hill 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 Highgate Wood New Gate, leaving the wood at see the Friends of Parkland Walkwebsite: Gate Muswell see the City of London 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.