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On the face of it, this should be literal. The Victoria Recreation Ground stands at its northern end. The park contains a drinking fountain installed by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. It is mainly grassed with a children’s playground, football pitches, tennis and basketball courts, a bowling green, and a car park. The park is a roughly square area laid out in the late nineteenth century on land previously known as Mrs Cook’s Farm, and Barnet Football Club played there in the newly opened 1889 – 1890 season. However, as Doreen Willcocks explains in her Barnet’s History in its Street Names, “[it was] named before 1888 but [does not] appear to have an associated park.” Clearly, plans for a park were already in train when the road was named.
