Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Waltham Forest

This is a list of Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, which contains the most parks of any government district north of the River Thames.^[1]

Ownership and Management

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Waltham Forest Borough Council (LBWF) owns over 290 hectares (2.9 km²) of open space including parks, sports and recreation grounds and nature reserves. However, other parks and open spaces in the borough are owned and managed by other agencies such as the City of London Corporation, which owns just over 472 hectares (4.72 km²) across 10 sites in the borough and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.^[2]

List of Parks and Open Spaces

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Name	Area	District	Managed by	Description
Abbotts Park	?	Leyton	LBWF
Ainslie Wood	2.04 hectares (0.02 km²)	Chingford	LBWF	Local Nature Reserve and Site of Importance for Nature Conservation.
Coronation Gardens	1.65 hectares (0.02 km²)	Leyton	LBWF
Hatch Forest	?	Chingford	City of London	Part of Epping Forest.
The Highams Park and Highhams Park Lake	?	Chingford	LBWF & City of London	Part of Epping Forest.
Langthorne Park	?	Leytonstone	LBWF
Leyton Flats	?	Leytonstone	City of London	Part of Epping Forest.
Leyton Jubilee Park	12 hectares (0.12 km²)	Leyton	LBWF
Lloyd Park	3.86 hectares (0.04 km²)	Walthamstow	LBWF	Known for being the site of the William Morris Gallery
Memorial Park	?	Chingford	LBWF
Ridgeway Park	5.34 hectares (0.05 km²)	Chingford	LBWF
Walthamstow Marshes	36.7 hectares (0.37 km²)	Walthamstow	Lee Valley Regional Park Authority	Part of Lee Valley Park. A Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Walthamstow Wetlands	211 hectares (2.11 km²)	Walthamstow	Thames Water & London Wildlife Trust	Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest.

References

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^ "Waltham Forest parks and open spaces" (PDF). Waltham Forest Borough Council. 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
^ "London Borough of Waltham Forest Open Space Strategy Draft" (pdf). London Borough of Waltham Forest. Retrieved 13 June 2019.

v t e London Borough of Waltham Forest
Districts	Cann Hall Chingford (including Chingford Green, Chingford Hatch, Chingford Mount and South Chingford, Friday Hill) Highams Park (including Hale End) Leyton (including Bakers Arms and Lea Bridge) Leytonstone (including Whipps Cross) Temple Mills Walthamstow (including Walthamstow Village and Upper Walthamstow) Woodford (Woodford Green)
Attractions	Brisbane Road football stadium Epping Forest Lee Valley Riding Centre Lee Valley Ice Centre New Spitalfields Market Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge Vestry House Museum Waltham Forest Theatre Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum Walthamstow Stadium William Morris Gallery
Street markets	Walthamstow Market
Parks and open spaces	Ainslie Wood Larkswood Playing Fields Lee Valley Park Leyton Jubilee Park WaterWorks Nature Reserve Walthamstow Marshes Walthamstow Wetlands
Constituencies	Chingford and Woodford Green (part) Leyton and Wanstead (part) Walthamstow
Tube and rail stations	Blackhorse Road Chingford Highams Park Lea Bridge Leyton Leyton Midland Road Leytonstone Leytonstone High Road St James Street Walthamstow Central Walthamstow Queen's Road Wood Street
Other topics	Council Listed buildings Grade II* Grade II People Public art Schools
Category

v t e Parks and open spaces in London
Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's
Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Beckenham Place Park Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Charlton Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead Waterlow Park West Ham Wimbledon
Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Bedfont Lakes Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Foots Cray Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent
Commons	Barnes Blackheath Bostall Heath Clapham Ealing East Sheen Eel Brook Eltham Hackney Marshes Hainault Forest Ham Hampstead Heath Hayes Keston Mitcham Monken Hadley Peckham Rye Plumstead Stanmore Streatham Sutton Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon and Putney Winn's Woolwich Wormwood Scrubs
Village greens	Camberwell Crooked Billet Islington Kew Newington Parsons Richmond Shepherd's Bush Turnham Twickenham
Marshes and wetlands	Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham, Wennington, and Aveley Tottenham Walthamstow Woodberry Wetlands WWT London Wetland Centre
Woodland	Bostall Braeburn Coldfall Copse Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Mad Bess Old Park Oxleas Park Petts Queen's Repository Woods Russia Dock Sydenham Hill
House gardens	Avenue House Belair Park Boston Manor Park Broomfield House Cannizaro Park Chiswick House Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Gunnersbury Park Hall Place Hampton Court Park Hillingdon Court Kenwood House Lamorbey Park Langtons Manor House Gardens Marble Hill Park Morden Hall Park Morden Park Osterley Park Syon House Valence House Museum Walpole Park
Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre
Community gardens	Phoenix Garden

v t e Parks and open spaces by London borough
Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth City of Westminster

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