Chestnuts Park

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Exterior of community centre located in the park. Chestnuts Park Community Centre.jpg
Exterior of community centre located in the park.

Chestnuts Park is a park between the West Green, St. Ann's and Harringay neighbourhoods in the London Borough of Haringey.

It is 5 hectares (12 acres) in size [1] and is located on St. Ann's Road and Black Boy Lane (now La Rose Lane),close to St. Ann's Hospital. It contains a café, community centre and tennis courts.

The park is protected in perpetuity as a site for public recreation with Fields in Trust, [2] as part of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge scheme, [3] and it received the Green Flag Award in May 2008. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Chestnuts Park" . Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  2. "Chestnuts Park, St Anns Road, Haringey". Fields in Trust. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  3. "Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge". The Royal Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

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