Clissold Park Redux #2: Super Stump
The cache, a camo-taped preform tube is hidden underneath the southern end of a large rotting log located near the centre of this lovely London park.
***Do please take care to watch out for muggles who are often numerous and active in this popular area of the park and apply suitable & effective stealth measures when undertaking the required caching operations - thanks! ***
Clissold Park is a designated 56 acre community park with children's playgrounds., sports fields, 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 2) (Continued from GC6RGYA Clissold Park Redux #1: West Side)
. . . 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 . . .
(Continues with GC6RGZW Clissold Park Redux #3: Sub Stump)