Clissold Park Reviews Summary

Facilities

Pros:

• "The park has a cafe, a children's playground, an Avery, and Tennis Courts."
• "Great facilities such as tennis courts, skate park, children's playground, under-5s club, paddling pool as well as lakes, a deer enclosure, butterfly dome and organic garden."
• "There are tennis court, skate board area, paddling pool."
• "Plenty of playground for kids, including spaces for Rollerskater and rollerblade."
• "Great cafe and ice creams. Brilliant Tennis courts, skating bowls, duck-pond and deer enclosure. Paddling pool in the summer time. Huge freestyle playing areas."
• "Has a Skatepark, a cafe, football pitch, basketball courts, a tennis club and house, tennis coaches, a pond, fishes in that pond, a creche, public toilets, a rose garden, wildlife, butterfly sanctuary, and loads of joggers and great social vybz."
• "Beautiful park with a wide range of facilities, including a café, toilets, tennis and basketball courts, skate park, children play area, animal enclosures and 2 lakes."

Cons:

• "the only problem is that people don't close the playground properly and kids may go out."
• "Parking is slightly problematic but apart from that very good."
• "The only problem is the cyclists and the electric scooters."
• "The toilets were predominantly locked. Those that were open were filthy."
• "however the animal area is very disappointing, the butterfly dome is just a storage area now and looks like it is about to be torn down."
• "Certain areas like the butterfly and bird enclosures look not that cared for."
• "The sand could be a bit nicer."

Cafe and Food

Pros:

• "Food: We bought 5 packet of Chicken and meat doner and 2 packet of Burger. Got a free Pepsi with Burger."
• "Cafe; reasonable price coffee and could sit and have a beer/Aperol etc if you want."
• "There is an excellent cafe, where you can get a delicious coffee."
• "The cafe overlooking the park is shadowed by a classic church. Great location for a snack but can be hellish busy."
• "There's a lovely cafe in the middle of the park which do a lovely coffee and cake."
• "A cafeteria can be found at the rear of the park, which serves hot and cold snacks, accompanied with hot and cold drinks."
• "The cafe is nice and serves good coffee and nice food not too overpriced."

Cons:

• "Very expensive. One coffee is £3 plus."
• "The cafe is ok in terms of quality of food, but is vastly overpriced!"
• "Service at the house ridiculous! 5 6 people stood around one lady running around(serving people n sorting what she can out it appears, bless her) one making coffee( very slowly) the rest don't know what they was doing other then chatting premium rate and poor slow service."
• "The cafe is slightly too posh for the neighbourhood but serves ok coffee and nice cakes. Shame it's not dog friendly at all considering it being a cafe in a park with lots of dog owners."
• "Park view cafe is expensive, but good quality food."
• "Oh there's public toilets too and a cafe which is a little pricey."
• "Cafe is limited but clean and offers a nice place get warm during the wet winter months!"

Environment and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The park has beautifully maintained all of its features as before with some additional table tennis concrete tables."
• "In my opinion clissold park is one of the best green spaces in London!!!"
• "Lovely park in Yummy Mummy Central (um, Stoke Newington) that gets brownie points for the following: Animals. Clissold Park isn't massive but it still packs in a huge amount of wildlife."
• "The park is very accessible and quiet, none of the roads around it are busy, which makes for a nice stroll around."
• "The rose garden is gorgeous in June."
• "Location is great, there's independent shops along the high street if you fancy getting snacks while you chill in the park."
• "The park has large grass areas, shaded places underneath trees, small ponds with fish."

Cons:

• "Generally a nice park, but can get very busy."
• "Can get really busy during the half terms and holidays."
• "As with any London park this can be very crowded."
• "The park obviously gets a bit crowded during the weekends."
• "It's always filled with families, and gets super busy on sunny days."
• "Clissold Park is such a beautiful park but unfortunately it was like a festival on the day I passed through. There were so many people there and so few with masks."
• "Oh and you’ll be ducking and diving out of the way of the gargantuan amount of runners with zero care in the world."