Description
Festival Walk is an area of land alongside the water channel abutting Nos. 9, 13, 70, 36 Festival Walk, dating from the C18th. It is a very scenic part of Carshalton with a famous plane tree marked with a plaque. The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the site as at present..
Practical Information
| Site location | Festival Walk, Carshalton |
|---|---|
| Postcode | SM5 3NY |
| What3Words | ///studio.petal.pass |
| Type of Site | Public Open Land |
| Borough | Sutton |
| Open to Public | Yes |
| Opening Times | unrestricted |
| Public Transport | Rail: Carshalton station. Bus: 127, 157, 407, 726. |
| Research Updated | 1 November 2004 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Full description
Pending further research
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ277644 |
|---|---|
| Size in hectares | 0.2 |
| Site Ownership | LB Sutton |
| Site Management | Parks |
| Dates | C18 |
| Listed Structures | LBII: Old Rectory, Lodge and Wall |
| 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 | Sutton |
| In Conservation Area | No |
| Tree Preservation Order | Yes |
| Nature Conservation Area | Yes - with Sutton Ecology Centre |
| Green Belt | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | No |
| Other LA Designation | Site of wildlife value, Sutton UDP schedule 4 p315 (along with Margaret’s Pool and the Lodgelands |
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Nearby parks and gardens
The pool here had long existed as Waterhouse Pond, but in 1872 the surrounding area was landscaped as a small garden and the pond cleaned and provided with sluices, by John Ruskin, as a tribute to his mother Margaret. It became the responsibility of Carshalton UDC in 1899.
Honeywood Lodge is in the centre of Carshalton village overlooking Carshalton Ponds. Built around the core of a C17th house, and added to in later years, it was purchased by Carshalton UDC in 1939 and is now the borough Heritage Centre. There are public gardens to the south west of the building.
* on The National Heritage List for England, Parks & Gardens
Once part of the medieval Manor of Carshalton and an estate called the Old Farm, Carshalton House was largely rebuilt in 1718-21 for Sir John Fellowes. A formal landscape was laid out for him by Charles Bridgeman, modified in the latter C18th by informal landscaping. The property became a school in the mid C19th and the house is now part of St Philomena’s School in whose grounds are remains of the C18th landscape park, including an early C18th Water Tower and The Hermitage, a grotto by the lake.
Once part of the medieval Manor of Carshalton and an estate called the Old Farm, Carshalton House was largely rebuilt in 1718-21 for Sir John Fellowes. A formal landscape was laid out for him by Charles Bridgeman, modified in the latter C18th by informal landscaping. The property became a school in the mid C19th and the house is now part of St Philomena’s School in whose grounds are remains of the C18th landscape park, including an early C18th Water Tower and The Hermitage, a grotto by the lake.