Sunny Hill Park is a park in Hendon , in the London Borough of Barnet , England. It is a large hilly park, 22 hectares, mainly grassed, which has extensive views to the north and the west. Together with the neighbouring Hendon Churchyard , it is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation .
5-524: The site used to be Sunnyhill Fields, and was owned by Church Farmhouse, now the adjoining Church Farmhouse Museum . In 1921 Hendon Council purchased 16 acres for a park, which opened in 1922, and in 1929 it was enlarged when further land was acquired. An area with scattered trees in the south-east corner was formerly part of St Mary's Churchyard, an important archaeological site with evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon occupation. The park still has hedgerows showing former field boundaries and mature trees. It has
10-672: A Grade II* listed 17th-century farmhouse in Hendon , north London, in the London Borough of Barnet – the oldest surviving dwelling in Hendon. The museum had two period rooms, a period kitchen and scullery, two exhibition spaces and a large garden with a pond. The building is a two-storey, red brick farmhouse with three gables and centrally placed chimney stacks. It is typical of 17th-century Middlesex vernacular architecture . A blue plaque commemorates Mark Lemon , who lived in
15-399: A cafe, a playground, various tennis and basketball courts and football pitches. There is access from Church End, Sunny Hill, Watford Way , Great North Way , Sunny Gardens Road, Sunningfields Crescent and Church Terrace. 51°35′49″N 0°13′48″W / 51.597°N 0.230°W / 51.597; -0.230 Church Farmhouse Museum Church Farmhouse Museum was in
20-510: The budget for 2010/2011 which included this proposal. There was a brief period of public consultation up to 17 January 2011, resulting in two petitions submitted against the closure, one signed by an estimated 1,900 people and one by an estimated 1,000 people. followed by a final recommendation by the cabinet in February, as a result of which the museum closed, for the time being, on 31 March 2011. The final temporary exhibition, " Harry Beck and
25-590: The house as a child between 1817 and 1823. His book Tom Moody’s Tales includes recollections of his childhood in the area. The house was owned by the Kempe family between 1688 and 1780, and later by the Dunlop family from 1869-1945. Barnet Council , in an attempt to save money and despite local opposition, voted to withdraw funding from Church Farmhouse Museum, as well as Barnet Museum , from April 2011. The Council's cabinet met on Monday 13 December 2010 and approved
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