Finsbury Park

Description

Overview [ edit ] The park provides a large green space in central north London. It has a mix of open ground, formal gardens, avenues of mature trees and an arboretum area with a mix of more unusual trees. There is also a lake, a children's play area, a cafe and an art exhibition space. The Parkland Walk, a linear park, starts here, and provides a pleasant, traffic free, pedestrian and cycle route with much of the feel of a country walk, that links the park with Crouch Hill Park, Crouch End, and Highgate tube station. Sports facilities in the park include football pitches, a bowling green, an athletics stadium, and tennis and basketball courts. Unusually for London, the park hosts two facilities for "American" sports: an American football field, home to the 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 national champions London Blitz, and diamonds for softball and baseball, home to the 2007 and 2008 national champions the London Mets. In recent years the park has been used for large public events such as Madstock!, the Fleadh, Big Gay Out, Party in the Park and Rise: London United. A £5 million Heritage Lottery Fund Award, made in 2003, enabled significant renovations including cleaning the lake, building a new cafe and children's playground and resurfacing and repairing the tennis courts. As a result of spending cuts following the 2008 economic crisis, a management plan for the park was published to cover the 2013 - 2016 period. London districts (large neighbourhoods) bordering the park are: Finsbury Park Harringay Stroud Green Manor House. Electorally it is the Harringay ward.

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finsbury_Park
• transitionfinsburypark.org.uk/
• www.nunoncastors.co.uk/2009/04/30/john-betjeman-the-cockney-amorist/
• www.harringayonline.com/page/a-harringay-timeline
• www.flickr.com/groups/wwwharringayonlinecom/
• www.virtualtours360.net/Virtual%20Tours/FinsburyPark/FinsburyPark.html
• finsburypark.wordpress.com/
• https://www.twitter.com/finsbury_pk
• www.haringey.gov.uk/index/community_and_leisure/greenspaces/parks_and_open_spaces_parks_facilities/finsburypark.htm

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