Haggerston Park
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Haggerston Park is an open space in Haggerston, Hackney. It occupies the space between Whiston Road (to the north), Hackney Road (south) and St Saviour's Priory, Queensbridge Road (west) and Goldsmith's Row (east).
The park was originally created in the 1950's and extended in the 1980's. It was carved out of an area of derelict housing, a tile manufacturer, and the old Shoreditch gasworks.
Haggerston Park contains a small but luxuriant nature reserve and a number of football pitches. It is also the home of the Hackney City Farm, which abuts the main park area to the southeast, on the site of a former brewery.
Haggerston Park, one of the few formal landscaped gardens in Hackney, was laid out in 1956. Also dating from the 1950s is a long pergola walk on the north side of the park. In the 1980s the park was extended to the south to include a Hackney City Farm, a children's playground and playing fields.
