Victoria Recreation Ground, Barnet
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Victoria Recreation Ground is a public park in
New Barnet New Barnet is a neighbourhood on the north east side of the London Borough of Barnet. It is a largely residential North London suburb located east of Chipping Barnet, west of Cockfosters, south of the village of Monken Hadley and north of O ...
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 ...
, United Kingdom. It is one of Barnet's 'Premier Parks'. It is mainly grassed with a children's playground, football pitches, tennis and basketball courts, a bowling green and a car park. There are flower beds which are the remains of a formal
flower garden A flower garden or floral garden is any garden or part of a garden where plants that flower are grown and displayed. This normally refers mostly to herbaceous plants, rather than flowering woody plants, which dominate in the shrubbery and ...
.Victoria Recreation Ground, London Gardens Online
/ref> The park is a roughly square area laid out in the late nineteenth century on land previously known as 'Mrs Cook's Farm', and Barnet Football Club played there in the 1889–90 season. The Shirebourne brook runs along the south side of the park and the
Pymmes Brook Trail The Pymmes Brook Trail is located in the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey and is just under long. The brook is named after William Pymme, a local landowner. The trail goes from Hadley Green to Tottenham Hale, where the trail ...
passes north–south through the park. There is access from Park Road, Victoria Road, Lawton Road, and by a footpath and footbridge from Cromer Road.


See also

*
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 ...


References


External links


Victoria Recreation Ground, London Gardens Online




{{coord, 51.6527, -0.1703, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet New Barnet