Barham Park
Park · Sudbury, England
Barham Park, at 660 Harrow Road, HA0 2HB, is free and managed by Brent Council, with free parking on site for about 16 cars. The council describes a gently undulating park with pathways and many mature trees that has maintained much of its formal Victorian character, and calls the walled garden a popular relaxation spot with visitors; a dog control order applies to the walled garden. Sudbury Town Underground station is 354 m away and Sudbury & Harrow Road 408 m.
History
The park and several local landmarks take their name from the Barham family, formerly major landowners in Sudbury. The surviving structures of Barham Old Court - garden walls, gates, a pergola of two Portland stone Ionic columns and a sundial on Portland stone Ionic columns - are listed Grade II, NHLE 1294729, on 15 March 1979, while the park itself is not on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Wembley Fire Station, on Harrow Road, is listed Grade II, NHLE 1247236, on 24 November 2000, and the Grade II* Hundred Elms Farm outbuilding, NHLE 1078876, listed 6 October 1952, stands 1,087 m north-west at Dyson Court, HA0 2NZ.
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Barham Park, 660 Harrow Road, Wembley HA0 2HB
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