Enfield parks and open spaces

The London Borough of Enfield is the northernmost of the Outer London boroughs. The borough lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt, and several of its 123 or more parks and open spaces ^[1] are part of it. The ancient Enfield Chase, remnants of which still exist, occupied much of the area. In addition to many playgrounds and sports facilities (including a number of golf courses), the main areas of public open space are:

Albany Park: Enfield Wash, 45 acres (0.18 km²) formally opened 1902, since extended; west of Enfield Lock railway station
Arnos Park, Arnos Grove: 44 acres (0.18 km²) opened in 1928^[2]; north of Arnos Grove tube station; Pymmes Brook Trail passes through it ^[3]
Beech Hill Park, Hadley Wood: includes Hadley Wood Golf Course
Broomfield Park, Palmers Green: 54 acres (0.22 km²), purchased 1903
Bullsmoor Playing Fields, Freezywater
Bury Lodge Gardens Edmonton
Bush Hill Park Recreation Ground Bush Hill Park was officially opened on 18 April 1911
Churchfields Recreation Ground Edmonton
Craig Park, Edmonton
Cunningham Park, Freezywater
Ryans Park, Enfield Highway
Durants Park, Enfield Highway created in 1903.
Forty Hall Park: an estate of 273 acres (1.10 km²) managed by Enfield Borough, includes woodlands and grounds around Forty Hall
Grovelands Park, Southgate
Hilly Fields, near Gordon Hill railway station: 62 acres (0.25 km²) purchased 1911
Hollywood Gardens, Edmonton
Jubilee Park, Lower Edmonton
King George's Field, Enfield Highway, opened in 1939, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935.
Montagu Road Recreation Ground, Edmonton
Oakwood Park: 64 acres (0.26 km²) purchased 1927
Ponders End Recreation Ground ( Ryans Park), Ponders End
Plevna Road Open Space, Edmonton
Pymmes Park, Edmonton: 53 acres (0.21 km²) purchased 1899
Tatem Park, Edmonton
Town Park, Enfield Town, which incorporates the last public remnant of Enfield Old Park.
Trent Park: country park
Whitewebbs Park

Apart from those open spaces, there are the two large reservoirs. The King George V and the William Girling collectively known as the Chingford Reservoirs situated alongside the River Lea in the east of the Borough.

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London Borough of Enfield

Districts	Arnos Grove Botany Bay Bowes Park Brimsdown Bulls Cross Bush Hill Park Clay Hill Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Enfield Chase Enfield Highway Enfield Island Village Enfield Lock Enfield Town Enfield Wash Forty Hill Freezywater Grange Park Hadley Wood Lower Edmonton New Southgate Oakwood Palmers Green Picketts Lock Ponders End Southgate Upper Edmonton Winchmore Hill World's End

Attractions	Forty Hall and Gardens Millfield Theatre and Arts Centre Capel Manor Myddelton House Gardens Chickenshed Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Whitewebbs Museum of Transport

Parks and open spaces	Arnos Park Broomfield Park Durants Park Oakwood Park Pymmes Park Trent Country Park Whitewebbs Park

Constituencies	Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate

Tube and rail stations	Arnos Grove Brimsdown Bush Hill Park Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Green Enfield Chase Enfield Lock Enfield Town Gordon Hill Grange Park Hadley Wood Oakwood Palmers Green Ponders End Silver Street Southbury Southgate Turkey Street Winchmore Hill

Other topics	People Public art Public transport Schools

Parks and open spaces in Enfield

Parks and open spaces in London

Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's

Large urban parks	Alexandra Battersea Blackheath Burgess Crystal Palace Finsbury Hampstead Heath Parliament Hill Southwark Victoria Wimbledon

Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent

Commons	Barnes Bromley Cannon Hill Clapham Eel Brook East Sheen Ham Hayes Kenley Mitcham Old Oak Peckham Rye Plumstead Putney Putney Lower Stanmore Stoke Newington Streatham Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon Winn's

Marshes	Aveley Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham Tottenham Walthamstow Wennington

Woodland	Bostall Coldfall Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Oxleas Queen's Russia Dock Sydenham Hill

House gardens	Belair Park Boston Manor House Cannizaro Park Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Hampton Court Park Kenwood House Langtons Morden Hall Park Osterley Park Syon House

Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre

Community gardens	Phoenix Garden Calthorpe Project

Parks and open spaces by London borough

Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster