Lyttelton Playing Fields is a 9 hectare
[Lyttelton Playing Fields, London Gardens Online]
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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, 2 cricket squares and toilets.[
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Mutton Brook is a stream which runs between East Finchley and Hendon in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a tributary of the River Brent, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames.
The brook rises in Cherry Tree Wood and flo ...
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.[ There is a small 'Children's ]Millennium wood
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' in the north west corner.
Lyttelton Playing Fields has an active friends group which secured Lottery funding in 2011 for renovation.Lyttelton Playing Fields
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Access is from Kingsley Way, Lyttelton Road, Norrice Lea and Linden Lea.
Gallery
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See also
* Barnet parks and open spaces
References
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Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet