Clissold Park Revisited #2: Off Stump
I was surprised to note that this fine park in north London no longer has any cache, the two that were there having been eventually archived after repeated muggling. So I thought it necessary to rectify that caching gap . . .
The cache is hidden under bark pieces in the top of a stump just off the small trail near the northern boundary of the park just north of Beckmere Lake the western of the two lakes. Please take care when retrieving and replacing the cache to look out for muggles.
Clissold Park is a designated 56 acre community park with with children's playgrounds., sports firelds, a bowlng green, tennis courts, cafe and some other attractions including terrapins in its lakes. It also comprises remains of the New River and some Capital Ring paths run though the park.
Brief History (Part 2)
. . . After 1811, the estate passed, via the Crawshaw family to Augustus Clissold but, when he died in 1882, developers closed in. Fortunately activists
John Runtz and Joseph Beck (members of the Metropolitan Board of Works managed to convince the newly formed London County Council (LCC) to protect the grounds of the house and adjacent Newington Common. It subsequently opened as a public space on 24 July 1889. A fountain was erected in 1890 to commemorate them and later, the park’s two wildlife ponds were named after them as 'Beckmere' and 'Runtzmere'.
In 2007, Clissold Park (originally known as Stoke Newington Park) was voted the Heart of Hackney, in an I Love Hackney Poll organised by Hacney Council and the heritage Lottery Fund announced a £4.5 million Park Restoration Grant which should restore the park and house to its original 18th-century design . . .
(Continued from Clissold Park Revisited #1: Lake Zone GC595PR)
(Continues with Clissold Park Revisited #3: Middle Stump GC5BMX7)