Lyttelton Playing Fields

Playing fields

Lyttelton Playing Fields is a 9 hectare[1] public park in Hampstead Garden Suburb in the London Borough of Barnet. It is one of Barnet's 'Premier Parks'.[2]

Most of the site is a large grassed area which can be used for cricket and football, and there are also a children's playground, tennis courts, multisport basketball and football courts, a private bowls club and toilets.[1][3]

Mutton Brook goes along the north of the site through a small area of old woodland which is shown on Rocque's map of 1754, and was called Watery Wood in an 1864 Ordnance Survey map. The hedgerow along the southern edge once marked the boundary of the Bishop of London's Hornsey Park Estate.[1] There is a small 'Children's Millennium wood' in the north west corner.[4]

Lyttelton Playing Fields has an active friends group which secured Lottery funding in 2011 for renovation.[5][6]

Access is from Kingsley Way, Lyttelton Road, Norrice Lea and Linden Lea.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lyttelton Playing Fields, London Gardens Online
  2. ↑ Premier Parks, London Borough of Barnet Archived 2010-12-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Lyttelton Playing Fields, London Borough of Barnet
  4. ↑ Lyttelton Playing Fields, Kids Fun London
  5. ↑ Lyttelton Playing Fields, news update
  6. ↑ Lyttelton Playing Fields

Coordinates: 51°35′01″N 0°10′37″W / 51.5836°N 0.1769°W / 51.5836; -0.1769

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