Scratchwood Park

Scratchwood is an extensive, especially wooded, one of the park in Mill Hill inside the London Borough of Barnet. The 57-hectare site is a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation and collectively with the neighbouring Moat Mount Open Space it is a Local Nature Reserve. The place of Scratchwood south of the entrance became once hay meadows, developing food for London's enormous horse populace, but in 1866 Scratchwood and Moat Mount had been a part of a 400-hectare property which became purchased by Edward William Cox, and Scratchwood was then used for recreation and rearing game.
The areas which might be now nature reserves have been bought by Hendon Urban District Council in 1923. The most important entrance is by means of the automobile park, that's accessed from the northbound lane of Barnet Way, a toll road that's a part of the A1 road, close to Stirling Corner. There is also access through a footpath from Barnet Lane in Elstree. The London Loop crosses the reserve. Mill Hill Golf Course is a 60-hectare Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I, right now south of Scratchwood at Grid. 150 years ago, it changed into farmland, and it later have become part of a country property which included Scratchwood and Moat Mount. The golfing course become created in 1927.