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Fryent Country Park

Park · Kingsbury, England

Fryent Country Park covers 103 hectares of traditional Middlesex countryside off Fryent Way, NW9 9SE, in the council's own words, and is free. There is a rough-surfaced car park for about 50 vehicles on the western side of Fryent Way. Kingsbury on the Jubilee line is 539 m from the Fryent Way address and the single station within 1,200 m of it. The council publishes no opening hours, so none are given here.

History

Barn Hill, the high point of the park, rises to 86 m and is capped by pebble gravel; Gotfords Hill reaches 63 m and Beane Hill 65 m, and the rest lies on London clay. Fryent Way bisects the park and the Capital Ring footpath passes through it. Part of the ground is let on licence for the grazing of ponies and there is no formal organised sport. Wikipedia gives 103 hectares (254 acres) for the park with Barn Hill Open Space together. It is a nature reserve, classed as Metropolitan Open Land and as a wildlife site of Metropolitan Importance under the system Brent and the Greater London Authority use, and it carries no entry on the National Heritage List for England.

Visit

Fryent Country Park, Fryent Way, London NW9 9SE

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