# Lakeside Nature Reserve, London

[Parks](https://geography.me/london/parks)

## Close by

- [Pitch](https://geography.me/london/pitch-oakfield-road), 140 m
- [Parcel locker](https://geography.me/london/parcel-locker-uk00004377), 230 m
- [Gordon Smith](https://geography.me/london/gordon-smith): Pharmacy, 240 m
- [Playground](https://geography.me/london/playground-squires-lane), 270 m
- [Victoria Park](https://geography.me/london/victoria-park): Park, 290 m
- [Basketball court](https://geography.me/london/basketball-court-320), 340 m
- [Viewpoint](https://geography.me/london/viewpoint-80), 420 m
- [Finchley Lido](https://geography.me/london/finchley-lido): Swimming pool, 1.0 km

Directions: https://maps.apple.com/directions?destination=51.5994,-0.185

Source: https://geography.me/london/lakeside-nature-reserve

## The story here

Lakeside Nature Reserve is a small Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation in Church End, Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet.
Its main feature is a pond which was constructed in the late 1890s by Peter Edmund Kay as a reservoir to store rainwater for commercial greenhouses in the Claigmar Vineyard, a large market garden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeside_Nature_Reserve

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lakeside_Nature_Reserve.JPG