West Hendon Playing Fields

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West Hendon Playing Fields is a 62 acre [1] public park in West Hendon in the London Borough of Barnet. It is one of Barnet's Premier Parks. [2]

West Hendon human settlement in United Kingdom

West Hendon is an urban area of North West London in the London Borough of Barnet however its Welsh Harp area is in the London Borough of Brent. It is known as the NW9 area of Hendon and has a range of cultures including from Somali, Afghan and West African Communities.

London Borough of Barnet Borough in United Kingdom

Barnet is a suburban London borough in North London, England. It forms part of Outer London and is the largest London borough by population with 384,774 inhabitants and covers an area of 86.74 square kilometres (33 sq mi), the fourth highest. It borders Hertfordshire to the north and five other London boroughs: Harrow and Brent to the west, Camden and Haringey to the southeast and Enfield to the east.

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It is a large grassed area with scattered mature trees. It has two tennis courts, several football pitches, a children's playground, a private bowls club, a basketball shooting hoop and a car park. [3] The park formed part of the extensive open spaces owned by Hendon Borough Council in 1932 [1] which became part of the London Borough of Barnet in 1965.

Municipal Borough of Hendon

Hendon was an ancient civil parish of around 8,250 acres (33 km2) which included Mill Hill on the border of Hertfordshire, as well as Golders Green and Childs Hill on the border of what became the County of London. In 1894 it was created an urban district of Middlesex and in 1932 it became a municipal borough. The municipal borough was abolished in 1965 and the area became part of the London Borough of Barnet.

The park is bordered on the south by the Brent Reservoir nature reserve, and on the east by Silver Jubilee Park in Brent. There is also access from Goldsmith Avenue and Fryent Grove.

Brent Reservoir reservoir which straddles the boundary between the London boroughs of Brent and Barnet

The Brent Reservoir is a reservoir between Hendon and Wembley Park in London. It straddles the boundary between the boroughs of Brent and Barnet and is owned by the Canal & River Trust. The reservoir takes its informal name from a public house called The Welsh Harp, which stood nearby until the early 1970s. It is a 68.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the only SSSI in either Borough and among more than 30 SSSIs in London.

London Borough of Brent London borough in United Kingdom

The London Borough of Brent is a London borough in north west London, and forms part of Outer London. The major areas are Wembley, Kilburn, Willesden, Harlesden and Neasden.

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