This small park is adjacent to the River Lea and has a diversity of self-established habitats at its northern end. Old walls are well used by a local youth project for graffiti-style art.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Markfield Park
Borough: Haringey
Grade: Borough Grade II
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 7.81 ha
Description
Wildlife
The park includes a mosaic of scrub, young woodland, rough grassland and pioneering wasteland vegetation. Old walls and other concrete and stone structures in the site support a remarkable range of rare plants. This is one of only three London sites for the nationally scarce plant, wall bedstraw. It grows alongside several locally rare ferns, including rustyback, common polypody and maidenhair spleenwort.Facilities
Playground; public art
Maidenhair spleenwort © London Wildlife Trust
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