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daughter more or less a prisoner. After her father's 

 death, however, she married her lover, and succeeded 

 to the estate, and changed its name from Crawshay 

 Farm to Clissold Place. This title has stuck to it, 

 although it reverted to the Crawshays, and in 1886 

 was sold by them. 



The Park measures ^2 acres. There is a small 

 enclosure with fallow deer and guinea-pigs, some artificial 

 water, and wide green spaces for games ; but the special 

 beauty of the Park consists in the canal-like New River, 

 with walks beside it, and in places foliage arching over 

 it, and the fine large specimen trees round the house. 

 There are some good cedars, deciduous cypress, ilex, 

 thorns, and laburnums ; a good specimen of one of the 

 American varieties of oak, Quercus palustris ; also acacias 

 and chestnuts — all looking quite healthy. 



Springfield Park 



Not very far from Clissold lies Springfield Park, in 

 Upper Clapton, opened to the public in 1905. It also 

 has the advantage of being made out of well laid out 

 private grounds. The area, 32^ acres, embraced three 

 residences, two of which have been pulled down, while 

 the third, Springfield House, which gives its name to 

 the Park, has been retained, and serves as refreshment 

 rooms. The view from the front of the house over 

 Walthamstow Marshes is very extensive. The ground 

 slopes steeply to the river Lea, and beyond on the plain, 

 like a lake, the reservoirs of the " East London Works," 

 now part of the Metropolitan Water Board, make a 

 striking picture. Springfield House was, until lately, 

 one of those pleasant old-fashioned residences of which 

 there were many in this neighbourhood, standing in 



