The Parkland Walk is a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) linear green walkway, in the London Boroughs of Haringey and Islington, which follows the course of the railway line which used to run between Finsbury Park through Stroud Green, Crouch End, Highgate and Muswell Hill to Alexandra Palace.
It is a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. It was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 1990 and is London's longest LNR.
The walk is almost all in Haringey, but a short stretch between Crouch Hill and Crouch End Hill is in Islington. (Crouch Hill Park in Islington is to the south of the Islington stretch and immediately bordering on the Parkland Walk) The route follows the bridges and cuttings of the line, passing through tunnels on each side of the closed surface section of Highgate station, which is closed to walkers for safety reasons. The route between the northern end of the Highgate Tunnels to the Northern line depot at Wellington Junction is used by trains entering the depot, while the rest of the cutting round Highgate Wood from Wellington Junction to Cranley Gardens is outside the wood’s fence, not officially part of Parkland Walk, and so is allowed to stay overgrown.
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