Harringay - Green Harringay

Green Harringay

22.5% of Harringay is open space:

  • Finsbury Park - officially part of Harringay
  • The Green Flag awarded to Railway Fields Local Nature Reserve, near Harringay Green Lanes Station
  • The New River Path, accessible from Wightman Road and from Green Lanes opposite Finsbury Park
  • Ducketts Common, opposite Turnpike Lane station
  • A very small area of open land called Harringay Stadium Slopes to the south and east of Sainsbury's car park, above Hermitage Road, accessible from Surrey Gardens, off Finsbury Park Avenue
  • Falkland & Fairfax Open Space ('Fairlands), Falkland Road, N8
  • A recently developed roof garden at North Harringay Primary School
  • A small, but very well kept and award winning, community garden in Doncaster Gardens (off Stanhope Gardens)


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Also close by are:

  • The Parkland Walk, running through nearby Stroud Green up to Highgate
  • Alexandra Park
  • Queen's Wood
  • West Reservoir, on Green Lanes, between Harringay & Stoke Newington - London Wildlife Trust page on West Reservoir
  • Highgate Wood
  • Chestnuts Park, by St Ann's Road
  • Priory Park, at the end of Hornsey High Street
See also: Haringey parks and open spaces

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