Trent Country Park

A wonderful place to escape the rat-race. It's a massive country park in Cockfosters, right at the end of the Piccadilly Line. It includes: a wood, hundreds of acres of fields, nature trails, a golf course, an equestrian centre, a lake and at the far end of the park an ornate Japanese Water Garden. It really is a beautiful area. Sometimes, there are open-air concerts in the summer.

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What a lovely park to host a 5k race. It features hundreds of acres of maintained woodland interspersed with fields and streams, making for a great trail run experience. It's easy to get lost even with a well-marked race route! A little-known bit of history about the park is that the Georgian hunting lodge was used as a POW camp for German officers and was heavily bugged. The British were able... more

We recently discovered Trent Park and have so far been a couple of times. It's beautiful wide, open spaces, a cafe which we've yet to try, a couple of playgrounds, a duck pond that my little boy was fascinated by and an animal enclosure that my kids loved. It's a great place to go out for a walk and in the summer to take a picnic along to. Judging by what arnolp04 has to say about the place -... more