Clissold Park
Clissold Park is an open space in Stoke Newington. It is bounded by Greenway Close (to the north), Stoke Newington Church Street (to the south) and Green Lanes (west) and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk (east). It was named by the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which was the local authority when the park was established.
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Clissold Park is an open space, named by the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which was the local authority when the park was established.

Clissold House (then called Paradise House) was built, in the latter half of the 18th century, for Jonathan Hoare, a City of London merchant, Quaker, philanthropist and anti-slavery campaigner. The park was created to be his idyll, and the stretch of water which wends its way around the house was once part of the New River, an artificial waterway that supplied London with clean water from Hertfordshire.

Hoare, in financial difficulties, mortgaged the estate, and then lost it by foreclosure to a Robert Pryor. It went through a number of owners until the Metropolitan Board of Works purchased it in 1887 as a public park.

The facilities include children’s playgrounds, sports fields, a bowling green, a skatepark bowl, tennis courts, the café and other attractions.

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