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Lyttelton Playing Fields is a 9 hectareLyttelton Playing Fields, London Gardens Online
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/ref> Access is from Kingsley Way, Lyttelton Road, Norrice Lea and Linden Lea.
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Lyttelton Playing Fields is a 9 hectareLyttelton Playing Fields, London Gardens Online/ref> public park in
Hampstead Garden Suburb
Hampstead Garden Suburb is an elevated suburb of London, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green. It is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations. It is an example of early twentie ...
in the London Borough of Barnet
The London Borough of Barnet () is a suburban London borough in North London. The borough was formed in 1965 from parts of the ceremonial counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. It forms part of Outer London and is the largest London borough ...
. It is one of Barnet's 'Premier Parks'.
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.
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
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map. The hedgerow along the southern edge once marked the boundary of the Bishop of London
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
's Hornsey Park Estate. There is a small 'Children's Millennium wood' in the north west corner.
Lyttelton Playing Fields has an active friends group which secured Lottery funding in 2011 for renovation./ref> Access is from Kingsley Way, Lyttelton Road, Norrice Lea and Linden Lea.
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*Barnet parks and open spaces
The London Borough of Barnet, located on the northern periphery of London and having much of the area within its boundaries in the Metropolitan Green Belt, has many parks and open spaces. In addition there are large areas taken over by cemeteries ...
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