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:
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)