Highbury Fields

Highbury Fields is Islington’s largest park. There are lots of things to do, including playing sports and enjoying the playground.

Park features

Park keeper
Children's playground with sand pit, water play feature and toilets
Bandstand
One O'Clock Club
Oasis Café
Boer War memorial
Highbury Pool and Fitness Centre
Designated a Site of Local Importance to Nature Conservation

New adventure play structure

The new adventure play structure is open. After consulting with local children and families, it has been designed to encourage children to take a more adventurous approach to play, encouraging jumping, swinging, climbing and balancing.

Sports facilities

One 50m x 26m artificial turf floodlit football pitch
Four netball courts
11 tarmac tennis courts with floodlights
One table tennis table next to the tennis courts

You can book courts and pitches here.

Address

Highbury Fields, N5

Size

11.75 hectares or 29.0 acres

Getting there

Buses: 4, 19, 30, 43, 271, 277, 393 to Highbury Corner; 4, 19, 236 to Highbury Barn

Tube: Highbury &Islington

Train: Highbury & Islington

Accessibility

Use our maps to identify nearest disabled parking bays and distance from public transport routes.

A Disabled Access Guide is available at Disabled Go.

Opening times

All parks with gates open by 8am daily. All of our parks are open 365 days a year (including Christmas and New Year's Day).

Water play features are turned on between 10am and 7pm during the months of May to September. They are turned off for the rest of the year.

Closing times

Closing times vary throughout the year, but it's usually at sunset. You can find monthly closing times below:

January - 5pm
February - 6pm
March (GMT*) - 6pm
March (BST*) - 8pm
April - 8pm
May - 9pm
June - 9pm
July - 9pm
October (BST*)- 7pm
October (GMT*) - 5pm
November - 5pm
December - 5pm

*GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) - times stated are valid until the clocks go forward one hour in March and from when the clocks go back one hour in October.

*BST (British Summer Time) - times stated are valid from when the clocks go forward one hour in March and until the clocks go back one hour in October.

Improvements to Highbury Fields

The council is planning to make significant improvements to Highbury Fields, including upgrading the sports facilities, and creating a new café building and wildlife garden with shelter to enable nature-based learning for children.

Learn more

Contact

Assistant Parks Manager, Public Realm Division

Email: greenspace@islington.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 7527 2000

Text: 'Greenspace' + your message to 80800