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Line 1: {{Short description\|Park in London, England}} {{Use British English\|date=August 2021}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2021}} Line 11 ⟶ 12: '''Fryent Country Park''', together with '''Barn Hill Open Space''', is a large park situated in the north of the [[London Borough of Brent]]. It covers 103 hectares (254 acres) <ref>[http://www.brent.gov.uk/parks.nsf/c8733a91cf3e811980256d8100547598/d0a2088dc5c182d880256d87003094b2!OpenDocument Brent Council. (2007). Fryent Country Park. Details] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092004/http://www.brent.gov.uk/parks.nsf/c8733a91cf3e811980256d8100547598/d0a2088dc5c182d880256d87003094b2!OpenDocument \|date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> of rolling fields and small woods. Fryent iswas also a ward of the London Borough of Brent. Its population at the 2011 Census was 13,445.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688597&c=Fryent&d=14&e=62&g=6319757&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1476957102938&enc=1\|title=Brent Ward population 2011\|access-date=20 October 2016\|publisher=Office for National Statistics \|work=Neighbourhood Statistics\|archive-date=21 October 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021060546/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688597&c=Fryent&d=14&e=62&g=6319757&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1476957102938&enc=1\|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==Significant features== Barn Hill in the south-west of the park is a wooded hill that rises to {{convert\|86\|m\|ft}}. A fish pond is found at the top of the Hill. Numerous other ponds can be seen in the rest of the park. Gotfords Hill ({{convert\|63\|m\|ft}}) and Beane Hill ({{convert\|65\|m\|ft}}) are other high points in the park. Parallel to Fryent Way is an ancient track known as Hell Lane or Eldestrete which may date back to Saxon times or earlier.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071025141110/http://www.oldcommunitykit.ik.com/pub/customersites/communitykit/ent-040709103224.nsf/0/879150f5d1e267c680256ee100353f53%21OpenDocument%26Click%3D Article on Hell Lane]</ref> There is also a [[farm]] near the Slough Lane entrance, one of the closest farms ~~from~~to the centre of London. ==Wildlife== [[File:Fryent Country Park horses1.jpg\|thumb\|Horses at Fryent]] The woodland comprises [[Quercus robur\|~~French~~English oak]], [[hornbeam]], [[elm]], ash and some fruit trees which also occur in the hedges along with blackthorn. The park is considered the best surviving example of [[Middlesex]] countryside in the Brent basin and has a population of the nationally rare plant the narrow-leaved bitter-cress ([[Cardamine impatiens]]).<ref>[http://www.brent.gov.uk/parks.nsf/24878f4b00d4f0f68025663c006c7944/a00ed001d12cea3480256baa0054e6fd/$FILE/MPFCP.doc Management Plan by Brent Council] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513210920/http://www.brent.gov.uk/parks.nsf/24878f4b00d4f0f68025663c006c7944/a00ed001d12cea3480256baa0054e6fd/$FILE/MPFCP.doc \|date=May 13, 2006 }}</ref> ==History== Barn Hill, called Bardonhill in 1547, was landscaped by [[Humphry Repton]] in 1792 as part of a local landowner's country park.<ref>[http://www.brent.gov.uk/planning.nsf/013459d30f2ad00680256623005fcc0a/7466088b7022a9fe802567c100586441?OpenDocument. Details of history of Barn Hill by Brent Council] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000102/http://www.brent.gov.uk/planning.nsf/013459d30f2ad00680256623005fcc0a/7466088b7022a9fe802567c100586441?OpenDocument \|date=27 September 2007 }} [Accessed 3 August 2007]. {{cite web \|url=http://www.brent.gov.uk/planning.nsf/013459d30f2ad00680256623005fcc0a/7466088b7022a9fe802567c100586441?OpenDocument \|title=Brent Council - Planning and building control \|access-date=2007-08-03 \|url-status=bot: unknown \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000102/http://www.brent.gov.uk/planning.nsf/013459d30f2ad00680256623005fcc0a/7466088b7022a9fe802567c100586441?OpenDocument \|archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> The Fryent Park hay meadows are small remnants of two manors, one originally in the ownership of [[King Edward the Confessor]].<ref>[http://www.bhcg.btck.co.uk/2012/HistoryHayMeadowsPDF Philip Grant (2004). “The hay meadows of Kingsbury: a look at their history”. Article prepared for Brent Archive.] {{webarchive\|url=https://archive.today/20130826135303/http://www.bhcg.btck.co.uk/2012/HistoryHayMeadowsPDF \|date=2013-08-26 }}</ref> Line 30 ⟶ 31: ==Awards== Fryent Country Park was awarded a [[Green Flag Award]] in 2010/2011 for being a well-managed park or open space.<ref>[http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/GreenFlag/GreenFlagAwardSites/London/Default.aspx?parkID=1195. Fryent Country Park.] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121144810/http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/GreenFlag/GreenFlagAwardSites/London/Default.aspx?parkID=1195 \|date=November 21, 2011 }}</ref> The Green Flag Award scheme is the benchmark national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales.{{dead link\|date=August 2013}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091115102515/http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/GreenFlag/Awards/GreenFlag/Default.aspx Green Flag.]</ref> It is also a [[Local Nature Reserve]].<ref name=LNR>{{cite web\|url= http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=fryent&ID=174 \|title= Fryent Country Park\|series= Local Nature Reserves\|publisher= Natural England\| date = 5 March 2013 \|access-date= 22 January 2014\|archive-date= 2 February 2014\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140202134008/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=fryent&ID=174\|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271008912%27\|title=Map of Fryent Country Park\|series=Local Nature Reserves\|publisher=Natural England\| access-date= 22 January 2014}}</ref> In 2014 [[London in Bloom]] awarded the park a silver gilt award in its Country Park of the Year category.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.londoninbloom.co.uk/london-in-bloom-results-2014/london-in-bloom-results-2014-2/\|title=London in Bloom}}</ref> Line 57 ⟶ 58: {{commonscat\|Fryent Country Park}} [[Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Brent]] [[Murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman]] (2020 double murder in the park) ==References== Line 63 ⟶ 64: ==External links== {{cite web\|url=http://www.gigl.org.uk/online/site-Details.aspx?sID=M036&sType=sinc \|title= Fryent Country Park\|publisher=Greenspace Information for Greater London\|year=2013\|access-date=26 August 2013\|archive-date=21 January 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121105443/http://www.gigl.org.uk/online/site-Details.aspx?sID=M036&sType=sinc\|url-status=dead}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060513210920/http://www.brent.gov.uk/parks.nsf/24878f4b00d4f0f68025663c006c7944/a00ed001d12cea3480256baa0054e6fd/$FILE/MPFCP.doc Brent Council's local management plan] *[http://www.bhcg.btck.co.uk/ Barn Hill Conservation Group's website]