Description
Dalmeny Park is a small secluded park behind Victorian housing, reserved 'for use by children and elderly' containing a playground, sandpit, grass and some trees. In the 1870s building was beginning to cover the rural area and by the 1890s much of the surrounding housing had been completed although land to the south of the park site remained unbuilt on until the early C20th. Previously for private use of residents of the surrounding housing the park is now public, owned by LB Islington.
Practical Information
| Previously known as | Dalmeny Road Open Space |
|---|---|
| Site location | Dalmeny Road |
| Postcode | N7 |
| What3Words | ///froze.employ.price |
| Type of Site | Public Park |
| Borough | Islington |
| Open to Public | Yes |
| Opening Times | 8am - dusk |
| Facilities | Children's playground, sandpit |
| Public Transport | Rail: Upper Holloway. Tube: Tufnell Park (Northern). Bus: 4, 17, 29, 91, 259 |
| Research Updated | 1 April 2012 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Full description
Pending further research
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ297857 |
|---|---|
| Size in hectares | 0.19 |
| Site Ownership | LB Islington |
| Site Management | Greenspace |
| Dates | early C20th |
| On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens | No |
| Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965 | No |
| Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931 | No |
| Local Authority | Islington |
| In Conservation Area | Yes |
| Conservation Area Name | Tufnell Park |
| Tree Preservation Order | No |
| Nature Conservation Area | No |
| Green Belt | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | Yes - Shopping Policy Area |
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Nearby parks and gardens
Tufnell Park Playing Fields were formed on the site of a C19th cricket pitch. It was later the University of London Playing Field, but is now owned by LB Islington and is a large grassy expanse, part railed with trees around its south, north and west boundaries.
Formerly the private garden of a villa of c.1840 fronting on Brecknock Road, Montpelier Gardens is an irregularly shaped area surrounding three sides of the house, with access from entrances. The garden retains traces of its original design including a stone terrace and low brick walls, mature trees and shrubs, a rockery and a small C19th built structure in one corner. Now redesigned as a children's play area with an asphalted enclosure containing play apparatus, the remaining areas of the garden are much simplified with trees, shrub beds and lawn.
Formerly owned by the Leighton Estate, Leighton Crescent Gardens is a crescent-shaped area designed in conjunction with the C19th terraces that overlook it, and contains some mature London plane trees. In the 1920s the garden had a lawn with shrubs and trees but it was later redesigned with a central raised landscape feature of rocks and shrubs and a circular asphalted playground, both no longer extant. A tennis court was incorporated but today the site is predominantly asphalt with some perimeter shrubs and trees.
