Queen's Wood — Attraction in London

Large undulating ancient diciduous woodland (roughly 52acres) in-between Crouch End Playing Fields and Highgate Woods. Suitable for wheelchair users and children's buggies and prams. Great place for your children to enjoy and discover the natural cathedral beauty of trees. Popular with dog walkers and families. Don't get lost! As with all of nature's playgrounds, appropriate footwear should be worn. Muddy when wet! Used to be known as Churchyard Bottom Woods until the late 1800's. It was renamed Queen's Woods to honour Queen Victoria's jubilee. Coven ceremonies are held here. In 1665 it was used as a plague pit. During the 1990's it became a nature conservation area. In close proximity to The Parkland Walk and to the cottage of one of Britain's late great comedic character actor and Goon Peter Sellers. Nearest station...

A sloping small and ancient woodland remnant with a high tree canopy and a mostly sparse underbrush,** evidencing landscape erosion resulting from excessive compaction “trampling” and the accumulated effect of “nutrient enrichment”…no shortage of dogs hereabouts . A cafe and some benches haphazardly strewn about with some mushrooms (September) adding welcome texture to the forest floor debris. ** RETURNED 7 years later in Spring: with the exception of a a few “flusters” of bluebells ( only in the protected fenced-off areas) still virtually colourless and denuded of meaningful ground cover except for flowering hawthorn. Professional intervention now obvious here and the ensuing improved ground quality evident in the...

It's a great place for a walk with dogs or children. Plenty of things to do. There are a few benches to sit around, some frog ponds, some improvised swings hanging from branches, a few big tree trunks on which children do balancing acts, some ditches to jump over. It is on the hilly side and it is not all paved but the dirt tracks are manageable with a buggy (plenty of them around). There is a hip cafe with a community garden behind...