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
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Famous quotes containing the word green:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 23:1-2.