144 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
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 53 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 oUwell 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 
