Canons Park
Green Flag Park Winner

Canons Park is nestled between the borders of Edgware and Stanmore; it has a fascinating history dating back hundreds of years. Canons Park offers wide open spaces for walking, sports and picnicking, with shady woodland walks offering wonderful displays of spring bluebells and wild garlic (from late April to early May).

Park Facilities

In addition to the wonderful natural areas, Canons Park has a family friendly area with an adventure playground, which recently had an exciting upgrade:

• new equipment for toddlers and older children

• new softer playground surface

• picnic tables

  and nearby:

• supersized climbing boulder

• table tennis tables

• basketball hoop

• outdoor exercise gym

The park has a flat terrain and a continuous pathway around its perimeter, enabling wheelchair users, walkers, joggers, and families with pushchairs to explore the woodland and open spaces without having to encounter steps or steep hills.

We host parkrun every Saturday at 9am and particularly welcome walkers, people with disabilities, and participants who bring along their dogs.

If you’re interested in the fascinating history of the park you can download the free, GPS-guided walk, which takes you back to the 18th century and the times of the first Duke of Chandos, who spent a fortune developing Canons as his country estate.

We are so proud of our café – Liam’s in the Park at the Good Friends Café – which has a five star rating by Harrow Council.  Don’t forget to stop by for top quality coffee, wonderful home-made patisserie, hot and cold drinks including fabulous smoothies, ices, and much more.

There’s also lots of seating outdoors – including a weatherproof pop-up dome – and always a friendly welcome.

There are a number of ways in which you can support the work of the Friends, who use their funds to:

• purchase and maintain tools and equipment for our gardening group

• buy plants, bulbs and shrubs for the walled Memorial Garden

• stage annual events such as our Kids’ Fun Fair Day in early August, and guided walks around the park as part of Open City week in mid-September

• create and install information boards around the park

• produce and distribute leaflets about the history, facilities and trees in Canons Park
  

Become a member of the Friends

Become a member of the Friends of Canons Park – or donate a membership to a friend or family member to mark a birthday or anniversary.  Membership runs from May each year for 12 months and costs just £10 per household, but you can join at any time of the year!

What the friends' groups do

The groups provide support with the day-to-day management of our parks and open spaces working with other stakeholders to promote the parks and the wide range of activities. 

Support includes:

• development of specialist areas such as the George V Memorial Garden

• working closely with the Shaw Trust horticultural charity, which has a base in the park

• reporting problems about trees, facilities, general landscaping, graffiti and security

• organising events in or associated with the park

• litter pick events

• promotion of the park

• Working with London Borough of Harrow staff

• Liaising with the council’s contractor staff

Membership of the group is open to any individual.