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the old and true parks that have remained to 

 London, and, like Eavenscourt and Brockwell, 

 it has an old manor house standing in it ; and 

 this building, looking upon water and avenues 

 of noble elms and wide green spaces, gives it the 

 appearance of a private domain rather than a 

 public place. Close by is Abney Park Cemetery, 

 which is now so crammed with corpses as to 

 make it reasonable to indulge the hope that 

 before long it will be closed as a burial place, 

 only to be re-opened as a breathing space 

 for the living. And as the distance which 

 separates these two spaces is not great, let us 

 indulge the further hope that it may be found 

 possible to open a way between them to make 

 them one park of not less than about a hundred 

 acres. 



Clissold Park is specially interesting to bird 

 lovers in London on account of the efforts of 

 the superintendent and the park constables in 

 encouraging and protecting the bird life of the 

 place. In writing of the carrion crow, the 

 jackdaw, and the little grebe, I have spoken of 

 this park, arid shall have occasion to speak of 

 it again in a future chapter. 



South of Clissold, with the exception of the 



