Highbury Fields
Park · Highbury, England
Highbury Fields covers '11.75 hectares or 29.0 acres'. Islington Council lists a children's playground with sand pit and water play, a bandstand, a One O'Clock Club, the Oasis Café, one 50m x 26m floodlit artificial-turf football pitch, four netball courts, eleven floodlit tarmac tennis courts and a table tennis table. All Islington parks with gates open by 8am daily, 365 days a year; closing times vary seasonally in the council's published table, from 5pm in November to February to 9pm in May to July, and the table publishes no closing time for August or September. The park lies in the Highbury Fields Conservation Area, a borough designation that carries no list entry number.
History
Georgian and early-Victorian terraces fringe the park and are Grade II listed: 1-4 Highbury Place, NHLE 1195631, 13-15A Highbury Place, NHLE 1298036, and 16-24 Highbury Place, NHLE 1207440. Highbury & Islington station sits at the park's southern tip, 100 m to the Underground station and 124 m to the rail station. Islington Council publishes the address as 'Highbury Fields, N5'.
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Highbury Fields, Highbury, London N5 1RZ
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