Blondin Park is an 8.5-hectare (21-acre) public park inNorthfields in theLondon Borough of Ealing. It has allotments area and sports pitches.[1] It is owned by Ealing Council and managed by the Council together with the Friends of Blondin Park. An area of 2.3 ha (5.7 acres) in the south-west corner is aLocal Nature Reserve,[2][3] and the nature area and allotments are aSite of Local Importance for Nature Conservation.[4][5]
The site was acquired by theMunicipal Borough of Ealing in 1928 and opened as a public park called Northfields Recreation Ground. In 1957 it was renamed Blondin Park afterCharles Blondin, who lived locally in Niagara House. The Blondin Nature Area was created in 1997.[6]
The nature reserve has a variety of habitats, including a wildflower meadow and a pond, where wetland plants have been introduced such aslesser pond-sedge,sharp-flowered rush andgreater spearwort.[5][6]
There is access from Boston Manor Road.
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