Lake Farm Country Park — Attraction in London

Lake farm country park is approximately 63 acres in size, comprised of open grassland and shrubs, both important for wildlife. DDA compliant paths criss-cross the area, which includes both a well appointed skate bowl complex and a challenging BMX circuit, upon which races are regularly held. The woods at the south end of the park provide access to to the Grand Union canal, leading West to Stockley Business Park and Golf Course, Trout Lane and the London Loop; and East to Southall, Ealing and Brentford. The park is a valuable wildlife reserve, with shrubland undisturbed for decades if not hundreds of years hosting many bird species such as skylarks and the extremely rare red backed shrike, as well as foxes, rabbits and the occasional deer. By around 1850 the Shackle family were operating brickworks over most of the current Lake Farm site. These were backfilled with clay and other materials, and after the Second World War the site was used for the testing of radar equipment for armoured vehicles. The Thorn EMI company continued to use the site until the early 1990s and relics of the testing facilities remain on site, including a monument memorialising the EMI staff who contributed much to...

Great place for taking the children. Two well maintained enclosed play areas. One for younger children and one for older children. The equipment includes 3 types of double swings, a round based swing, 4 types of climbing frames with slides and rope ladders, 2 types of roundabouts, an offset spinning dish, a low balance beam, a zip wire and a sprung wide seesaw. There is now new outdoor adult gym equipment just outside of the play areas. This equipment is very robust and brand new with 2 types of ski units, 2 side by side sit up, body weight arm exersize, pull up and monkey bars. My 5 year old twin grandchildren love...

This park is not properly managed, shame on hillingdon council, three in this car smoking drugs, it would seem that the people using this park don't care for it and hillingdon council don't monitor it, I witnessed a couple with a young child having a picnic yesterday and when I visited today all there picnic rubbish was left behind, shame on them, the car par full of rubbish, some young mug has been doing donuts in the car park, there's a camera on the carpark, what is the council doing to curb this antisocial behaviour, nothing it would...