Description

Chapman's Green was probably laid out as a public garden between 1913-1935 on an area of former common land identified as Chapman's Green as early as the Earl of Dorset's survey of 1619, and the site of an early settlement in 1391. The park remains much as it appeared on the 1935 OS Map, with a bowling green, tennis court, lawns, formal beds, shrub borders and ornamental trees. The bowling green was the home of Noel Park Bowling Club until 2018, and a new use now needs to be found for the green and pavilion. There is also an example of 3-dimensional bedding in the form of an ivy basket. 

Practical Information

Site location Lordship Lane/Perth Road
Postcode N22 5EA
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Type of Site Public Park
Borough Haringey
Open to Public Yes
Opening Times dawn to dusk
Facilities Tennis courts
Events Friends of Chapman's Green organise events such as a Summer Fair and other activities
Public Transport Tube: Wood Green (Piccadilly). Bus 144, 217, 231, 243, 444, W3
Research Updated 25 May 2026
Last Updated 18 October 2026

Full description

Local people formed the Friends of Chapman’s Green in 2016 and organises community events in the park throughout the year and has regular clean-up days. The Friends are working with Haringey Council and their partners Inspirit Training and Grow N22 to explore how Chapman’s Green can best serve its community in the years ahead.

Noel Park Bowling Club formed in 1925 and made Chapman’s Green its home, playing here for almost a century. In late 2018 its remaining members made the difficult decision to wind up the club. As a result the park’s pavilion and bowling green needs to find a new use and the Friends are keen that the spirit of the Bowling Club and its history of social activity should be sustained by reimagining and reinvigorating how the whole site – park, pavilion and bowling green – is used in future: "Our ambition is to transform the pavilion into a mixed use community hub, suitable for a range of small-scale activities and events; to improve the quality and usability of the park by introducing play equipment; and to partly re-wild the old bowling green – allowing it to revert to a meadow whilst also adding an orchard – so that it can better contribute to the health of the local environment as well as the local community."

Further Information

Grid Reference TQ318908
Size in hectares 0.4
Site Ownership LB Haringey
Site Management Parks Service (Woodside Neighbourhood); Friends of Chapman's Green
Dates 1913 - 1935
Designers Not known
On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens No
Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965 Yes: Green (TVG55)
Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931 No
Local Authority Haringey
In Conservation Area No
Conservation Area Name abuts CA/1031/21
Tree Preservation Order Not known
Nature Conservation Area No
Green Belt No
Metropolitan Open Land No
Special Policy Area No

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