Clissold Park is a park located in Stoke Newington, in Hackney. Green Flags are awarded annually to the country’s most beautiful parks. It is bounded by Greenway Close, Church Street, Green Lanes and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk. The park’s facilities include children’s playgrounds, sports fields, a bowling green, a skatepark bowl, tennis courts, and a paddling pool.
Other attractions include an aviary with assorted captive species, an enclosure of deer and goats, a butterfly dome, and two small lakes hosting wild ducks, geese, swans and other water birds. The park also has two ponds and a retained section of the New River which used to bring drinking water from Hertfordshire into London features the elegant Georgian Clissold House where you will find a café and public toilets.