Clissold Park
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| Location | Stoke Newington, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°33′40″N 0°5′17″W / 51.56111°N 0.08806°WCoordinates: 51°33′40″N 0°5′17″W / 51.56111°N 0.08806°W |
| Area | 22.57 hectares (55.8 acres) |
| Created | 1889 |
| Operated by | London Borough of Hackney |
Clissold Park is a designated community park (22.57 hectares (55.8 acres)) in Stoke Newington, within the London Borough of Hackney. Its facilities include children's playgrounds, sports fields, a bowling green, tennis courts, the café and some other attractions including terrapins in its lakes, as well as deer, quail, and rabbits. The park also comprises remains of the New River, and the Capital Ring has some of its paths running through a small section of the park.
Clissold House (formerly Paradise House) was built, in the latter half of the 18th century, for Jonathan Hoare, a City merchant, Quaker, philanthropist and anti-slavery campaigner. (His brother, Samuel, half-brother of Sir Joseph Hoare Bt, was one of the founders of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.) The park was created to be his idyll, and the stretch of water which wends its way around the house was once part of the New River, a canal that supplied London with clean water from Hertfordshire.
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