Eaglesfield Park

Eaglesfield Park is a public park situated close to the top of Shooter's Hill, south of Woolwich, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south east London.

Eaglesfield Park
Eaglesfield Park Location in Woolwich
Type	Public park
Location	London, SE18
Coordinates	51°28′15″N 0°04′14″E
Area	3.64 hectares (9.0 acres)
Created	1908
Operated by	Greenwich London Borough Council
Status	Open year round
Website	"Eaglesfield Park" (descriptive page on Eaglesfield Park at greenwich.gov.uk, the Greenwich London Borough Council's official website)

Overview

The park is in two sections divided by Eaglesfield Road. The western section is landscaped and includes a children's playground and a pond; the eastern section is a grassland meadow, and is adjacent to a golf course. The Green Chain Walk passes through the western section of the park.[1]

Eaglesfield was purchased by Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council in 1907, with half the funds contributed by London City Council. LCC's chief officer of parks JJ Sexby laid out the park, which was opened in 1908.[2] Sexby's design included enhancements to an existing ornamental pond.[3] Over time this became derelict and abandoned, but was restored in 2012.[2]

The park's name may derive from the two eagles depicted on the coat of arms of local 18th-century landowner John Lidgebird, or because Shooters Hill was known as a roost for eagles in medieval times.[4]

Eaglesfield Park: The Meadow
Information sign
Eaglesfield Park, west of Eaglesfield Road
wildlife pond

References

"Eaglesfield Park". Royal Borough of Greenwich. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
"Friends of Eaglesfield Park: Pond Restoration History". Retrieved 16 December 2020.
"London Gardens Trust: Eaglesfield Park". Retrieved 16 December 2020.
"Eaglesfield Park". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 17 December 2020.

Parks and open spaces in London
Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's
Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead Waterlow Park West Ham Wimbledon
Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Bedfont Lakes Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Foots Cray Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent
Commons	Barnes Blackheath Bostall Heath Clapham Ealing East Sheen Eel Brook Eltham Hackney Marshes Hainault Forest Ham Hampstead Heath Hayes Keston Mitcham Monken Hadley Peckham Rye Plumstead Stanmore Streatham Sutton Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon and Putney Winn's Woolwich Wormwood Scrubs
Village greens	Camberwell Crooked Billet Islington Kew Newington Parsons Richmond Shepherd's Bush Turnham Twickenham
Marshes and wetlands	Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham, Wennington, and Aveley Tottenham Walthamstow Woodberry Wetlands WWT London Wetland Centre
Woodland	Bostall Braeburn Coldfall Copse Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Mad Bess Old Park Oxleas Park Petts Queen's Russia Dock Sydenham Hill
House gardens	Avenue House Belair Park Boston Manor Park Broomfield House Cannizaro Park Chiswick House Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Gunnersbury Park Hall Place Hampton Court Park Hillingdon Court Kenwood House Lamorbey Park Langtons Manor House Gardens Marble Hill Park Morden Hall Park Morden Park Osterley Park Syon House Valence House Museum Walpole Park
Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre
Community gardens	Phoenix Garden

Parks and open spaces by London borough
Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth City of Westminster

Royal Borough of Greenwich
Districts	Abbey Wood Avery Hill Blackheath Charlton Coldharbour Deptford Eltham Greenwich Greenwich Peninsula/North Greenwich Horn Park Kidbrooke Longlands Maze Hill Mottingham New Charlton New Eltham Plumstead Shooter's Hill Thamesmead Well Hall Westcombe Park Woolwich
Attractions	The Bob Hope Theatre Charlton House Cutty Sark Eltham Palace Fan Museum Greenwich Dance Greenwich Heritage Centre Greenwich Theatre London Cable Car formerly the Emirates Air Line National Maritime Museum The O2 arena formerly the Millennium Dome Old Royal Naval College Ranger's House Royal Artillery Barracks Royal Observatory Severndroog Castle St Alfege Church Thames Barrier The Valley Charlton Athletic F.C. Woolwich Ferry
Street markets	Greenwich Market
Parks and open spaces	Avery Hill Park Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve Bostall Heath and Woods Charlton cemetery Charlton Park Eaglesfield Park East Greenwich Pleasaunce Eltham Common Eltham Park Gilbert's Pit Greenwich Cemetery Greenwich Park Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Horn Park Maryon Park Maryon Wilson Park Mycenae Gardens Oxleas Wood Plumstead Cemetery Plumstead Common Shrewsbury Park Sutcliffe Park The Tarn Winn's Common Woolwich cemetery Woolwich Common
Constituencies	Erith and Thamesmead Eltham Greenwich and Woolwich
Bridges and tunnels	Blackwall Tunnel Greenwich foot tunnel Woolwich foot tunnel
Rail stations	Abbey Wood Charlton Cutty Sark Deptford Bridge Eltham Elverson Road (in LB of Lewisham) Greenwich Kidbrooke Maze Hill Mottingham New Eltham North Greenwich Plumstead Westcombe Park Woolwich Woolwich Arsenal Woolwich Dockyard
Other topics	Churches Coat of arms Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Schools
Category Commons

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.