Finsbury Park and Furtherfield Gallery
Park · Finsbury Park, England
Finsbury Park is entered from Endymion Road, N4 1EE, and is a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1000804, registered 1 October 1987, measuring 45.18 hectares. Haringey Council manages it and publishes it as 'Open 24 hours a day', with gate opening times Monday to Sunday 8am to 4pm and gates 'locked promptly at 4pm'; entry is free. Furtherfield Gallery, in the McKenzie Pavilion beside the boating pond and across the playground from the café, N4 2NQ, is open during exhibitions, so check its programme before travelling. The park is not wholly Haringey's: the council states that '3 London boroughs meet in Finsbury Park – Haringey, Islington and Hackney', and the eastern edge along Green Lanes falls in the London Borough of Hackney.
History
The park opened in 1869 and was designed and laid out by Alexander McKenzie, whose name the pavilion that now houses Furtherfield Gallery carries. Haringey lists the facilities as an athletics track, boating lake, bowls club, café, Changing Places toilet, disability play, netball courts, outdoor gym, picnic area, playground, skatepark, splash play, table tennis tables, tennis courts, toilets and zip wire. Furtherfield runs two venues here, the gallery at the McKenzie Pavilion and Furtherfield Commons at Finsbury Gate, N4 2DE. The park carries the name of Finsbury, an old Islington parish, and none of the stations named for it are in Haringey: Finsbury Park station, south across Seven Sisters Road, and Crouch Hill are both in the London Borough of Islington, and Manor House, at the eastern gate, is in the London Borough of Hackney.
Visit
Endymion Road, London N4 1EE