Shoreditch Park is an open space in Hoxton

Hoxton

Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regent's Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east.Hoxton is also a...

, in the London Borough of Hackney

London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough of North/North East London, and forms part of inner London. The local authority is Hackney London Borough Council....

. It is bounded by Poole Street (to the north), Rushton and Mintern Streets (south) and New North Road

A1200 road

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 (west) and Pitfield Street (east). The park derives its name from the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch

Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch

The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington and the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney to form the London Borough of Hackney....

, the local authority when it was established. The park is 7.7 hectares (19 acre) in extent.

The park was originally created in the 1970s on an area of terraced housing

Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls...

 that had been devastated by the Blitz

The Blitz

The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...

, and then used for temporary housing, known as prefabs. In 2005 and 2006, an extensive excavation was carried out by archaeologists from the Museum of London

Museum of London

The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. The museum is located close to the Barbican Centre, as part of the striking Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 70s as an innovative approach to re-development within a bomb damaged...

 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II

World War II

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. The excavation examined housing of the time, and investigated the damage caused by aerial bombing and missiles. It was pioneering in involving members of the local community in the project.

The park has sports facilities, an adventure playground, children's playground, London's only outdoor beach volley ball court (managed by London Beach Volleyball Club http://www.londonbeachvolleyball.org) . Recent improvements include innovative low energy LED

LEd

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 lighting, the creation of an outdoor amphitheatre in the park for theatre and cinema screenings; and an 85 tonne granite http://www.peeruk.org/projects/franklandboulder/jfranklandboulder1.html boulder by the Artist John Frankland. The Britannia Leisure Centre is adjacent to the park, on its north eastern boundary.

Shoreditch Park received a Green Flag award

Green Flag award

The Green Flag Award is the benchmark national standard for parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom. The scheme was set up in 1996 to recognise and reward green spaces in England and Wales that met the laid down high standards...

 in July 2008. The park is home to the annual http://www.shoreditchfestival.org.uk/ Shoreditch Festival.

The nearest London Underground station is Old Street on the Northern Line

Northern Line

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. Buses 21,76,141 and 271 stop on New North Road adjacent to the park.

External links

• London Beach Volleyball Club
• Buried by the Blitz: A Time Team Special (Time Team Series 13)
• Shoreditch park digging for history (MoLAS
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• LB Hackney Shoreditch Park