The London Borough of Haringey maintains 600 acres (240ha) of parks and open spaces within its boundaries. These range in size from Finsbury Park to a number of playgrounds and sports fields. Alexandra Park, the area surrounding Alexandra Palace, is also located here.
Lordship Recreation Ground is one of 11 parks throughout Greater London chosen to receive money for redevelopment by a public vote. The recreation ground received £400,000 towards better footpaths, more lighting, refurbished public toilets and new play areas for children.
Until their disbandment in April 2009, the parks were patrolled by the Haringey Parks Constabulary.
As of 2011, a partial list of parks and open spaces in Haringey was as follows:
- Albert Road Rec
- Alexandra Park
- Belmont Recreation Ground
- Bluebell Wood
- Bruce Castle Park
- Chapmans Green
- Chestnuts Park
- Coldfall Wood
- Downhills Park
- Down Lane Recreation Ground
- Ducketts Common
- Fairland Park
- Finsbury Park
- Granville Road Spinney
- Hartington Park
- Lordship Recreation Ground
- Manchester Gardens
- Markfield Park
- Muswell Hill Playing Fields
- The Paddock
- Paignton Park
- Parkland Walk
- Priory Park
- Queens Wood
- Railway Fields
- Russell Park
- Stationers Park
- Wood Green Common
- Woodside Park
Haringey Council also contributes to the upkeep of Lee Valley Park.
Famous quotes containing the words parks, open and/or spaces:
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And now that the end is near
The segments of the trip swing open like an orange.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)