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The London Borough of Enfield is the northernmost of the Outer London boroughs. The borough lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt, and several of its 123 or more parks and open spaces are part of it. The ancient Enfield Chase, remnants of which still exist, occupied much of the area. In addition to many playgrounds and sports facilities (including a number of golf courses), the main areas of public open space are:

• Albany Park: Enfield Wash, 45 acres (0.18 km) formally opened 1902, since extended; west of Enfield Lock railway station
• Arnos Park, Arnos Grove: 44 acres (0.18 km) opened in 1928; north of Arnos Grove tube station; Pymmes Brook Trail passes through it
• Beech Hill Park, Hadley Wood: includes Hadley Wood Golf Course
• Broomfield Park, Palmers Green: 54 acres (0.22 km), purchased 1903
• Bullsmoor Playing Fields, Freezywater
• Bury Lodge Gardens Edmonton
• Bush Hill Park Recreation Ground Bush Hill Park was officially opened on 18 April 1911
• Churchfields Recreation Ground Edmonton
• Craig Park, Edmonton
• Cunningham Park, Freezywater
• Ryans Park, Enfield Highway
• Durants Park, Enfield Highway created in 1903.
• Forty Hall Park: an estate of 273 acres (1.10 km) managed by Enfield Borough, includes woodlands and grounds around Forty Hall
• Firs Farm, (Firs Lane Winchmore Hill London N21 2PJ)'
• Grovelands Park, Southgate
• Hilly Fields, near Gordon Hill railway station: 62 acres (0.25 km) purchased 1911
• Hollywood Gardens, Edmonton
• Jubilee Park, Lower Edmonton
• King George's Field, Enfield Highway, opened in 1939, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935.
• Minchenden Oak Garden, Southgate
• Montagu Road Recreation Ground, Edmonton
• Oakwood Park: 64 acres (0.26 km) purchased 1927
• Ponders End Recreation Ground ( Ryans Park), Ponders End
• Plevna Road Open Space, Edmonton
• Pymmes Park, Edmonton: 53 acres (0.21 km) purchased 1899
• Tatem Park, Edmonton
• Town Park, Enfield Town, which incorporates the last public remnant of Enfield Old Park.
• Trent Park: country park
• Whitewebbs Park

Apart from those open spaces, there are the two large reservoirs. The King George V and the William Girling collectively known as the Chingford Reservoirs situated alongside the River Lea in the east of the Borough.

Covert Way is Enfield's only Local Nature Reserve.

References

1. "London Borough of Enfield - Parks in Enfield". Archived from the original on 2009-09-26. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
2. Park Explorer - Arnos Park Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine.
3. Pymmes Brook Trail.

External links

• Enfield parks and open spaces
• Enfield's "palaces, parks and open spaces"

v t e London Borough of Enfield
Districts	Arnos Grove Botany Bay Bowes Park Brimsdown Bulls Cross Bullsmoor Bush Hill Park Chase Side Clay Hill Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Enfield Enfield Chase Enfield Highway Enfield Island Village Enfield Lock Enfield Town Enfield Wash Forty Hill Freezywater Gordon Hill Grange Park Hadley Wood New Southgate Oakwood Palmers Green Picketts Lock Ponders End Southgate Upper Edmonton Winchmore Hill World's End
Attractions	Broomfield House Capel Manor Chickenshed The Dugdale Centre Forty Hall and Gardens Millfield House Millfield Theatre Myddleton House Royal Small Arms Factory Interpretation Centre Whitewebbs Museum of Transport
Parks and open spaces	Arnos Park Broomfield Park Covert Way Durants Park Enfield Town Park Grovelands Park Minchenden Oak Garden Oakwood Park Pymmes Park Rammey Marsh Trent Park Whitewebbs Park
Constituencies	Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate
Tube and rail stations	Angel Road Arnos Grove Brimsdown Bush Hill Park Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Green Enfield Chase Enfield Lock Enfield Town Gordon Hill Grange Park Hadley Wood Meridian Water Oakwood Palmers Green Ponders End Silver Street Southbury Southgate Turkey Street Winchmore Hill
Other topics	Coat of arms Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Schools
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Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Beckenham Place Park Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Charlton Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead Waterlow Park West Ham Wimbledon
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Marshes and wetlands	Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham, Wennington, and Aveley Tottenham Walthamstow Woodberry Wetlands WWT London Wetland Centre
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Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre
Community gardens	Phoenix Garden

• Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Enfield