Plaque

Queens Wood

Inscription

Queens Wood Highgate
This wood comprising 50 acres was opened for the use and enjoyment of the public as an open space for ever, on July 23rd 1898 by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Albany.
C.F. Cory Wright JP, DL., Chairman of the Hornsey District Council.

Previously known as Churchyard Bottom Wood, the wood was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria when Hornsey Urban District Council purchased it from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1898.

Site: Queens Wood (1 memorial)

N10, Queen's Wood, The café

This charming cottage features in "Memories of Highgate from a Keeper's Lodge" by Liza Chivers (2nd edition 1999). Liza grew up in the Keeper's Lodge of Queens Wood, Highgate (now an ecology centre and café). A unique memoir of life before and after the first world war, when Highgate was still a rural as well as an urban community.

2024: An interview with the author of a new biography, David Lascelles’s 'Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge' informs that this cottage was designed by Horace Jones on behalf of the City of London Corporation.

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Helena, Duchess of Albany

Born in Arolsen as Helena Frederica Augusta of Waldeck & Pyrmont. Married...

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C.F. Cory Wright

JP, DL., Chairman of the Hornsey District Council.

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Queens Wood, Highgate

50 acres. Prompted by a campaign led by Henry Reader Williams Hornsey Counci...

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Hornsey District Council

1894 Hornsey became an urban district and in 1903 a municipal borough. In 196...

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