Clissold Park Revisited #3: Middle 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 geocaching gap . . .
The cache is hidden under bark pieces/twigs in a hole in this large and prominent stump in the middle of a grassy area of the park. As you will be highly visible out in the open, please take care when retrieving and replacing the cache to look out as well as you can for muggles. Also as glass has been reported in some of the holes, please take care when searching and preferably use a twig or pen to poke about . . .
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. See Gallery for Opening Times.
Brief History (Part 3) (continued from Clissold Park Revisited #2: Off Stump GC5BMWK)
. . . Work on the Clissold Park and House Restoration Project started in January 2010, and over the next two years some £8.9 million was spent restoring the historic house, bowling pavilion and surrounding parkland, with additional funding from the Big Lottery Fund and Hackney Council.
Other planned work includes restoring a section of the New River, extensive maintenance to the two park lakes, renovating the current animal enclosures and creating a new play and wheels park area.
The Park received a Green Flag award in 2008 and 1,000 trees in a very wide range of species including ash, lime, 
oak, plane, poplar, ailanthus with numerous notable mature chestnut trees, singly or in avenues along paths. For many years the larger pond was used as a boating lake.
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On 24 July 2014 the 125th anniversary of the park's opening was celebrated. The Memorial Drinking Fountain commemorating Beck and Runtz who saved the parkland from developers (see Brief History Part 1) was restored by the council in time for this with help from the Drinking Fountain Association and Clissold Park User Group (CPUG). The granite memorial was unveiled by the great great grandchildren of Joseph Beck.
Also vintage photographs from the Park's fascinating past were re-staged by CPUG to mark the anniversary (see Gallery). One, a Victorian snapshot, shows jubilant visitors celebrating the park’s official opening in 1889 following the dogged crusade by campaigners to save the park from the clutches of developers. The other, from an early 20th century postcard, depicts three boys enjoying the park's celebrated Memorial Drinking Fountain.
At the end of July 2014 it was announced that Clissold Park, with 3 million visits in 2013 had maintained its Green Flag status for the ninth year in a row. Out of 1,448 winners of the award for the year, the Park took 7th place.