These lakes – purportedly the remains of clay pits dug for the bricks used in the building of Clissold House – are all that is left to mark the course of the Hackney Brook, one of London's lost rivers, which once flowed from west to east across Stoke Newington on its way to the River Lea.

* Clissold House, Clissold Park

Rose Seidler House, Clissold Road

The Rose Seidler House, in Clissold Road, built by Harry Seidler between 1948 and 1950, was one of the first examples of modern residential architecture in Australia.

Clissold House ( formerly Paradise House ) was built, in the latter half of the 18th century, for Jonathan Hoare, a City merchant, Quaker, philanphropist and anti-slavery campaigner.

Work on the Clissold Park and House Restoration Project commenced in January 2010, and over the next 2 years an estimated £ 8. 9 million pounds is to be spent upgrading the historic Clissold house and its surrounding parkland.

Restoring the Grade II listed Clissold House

Nearby Clissold are no London Underground stations, but within one mile are Manor House, Finsbury Park and Arsenal.

Amongst the sights along its route are Clissold Park, The Waterworks, Finsbury Park, the New River ( which follows a roughly parallel course for some distance ), Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Grand Parade ( a quarter mile long row of terraced mansion houses and shops on the east side of Green Lanes in Harringay ), the Salisbury Public House erected in 1897 with its crown to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and Turnpike Lane Underground Station.

* Clissold Park-between Newington Green and Manor House

Clissold Park Café is at the late-18th century villa ; the spire of Stoke Newington ( parish ) | St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington can been seen in the background.

Clissold Park is set in () at Stoke Newington, and nowadays is a designated Community Park within the London Borough of Hackney.

South of these facilities is Clissold Park, an extensive swathe of parkland complete with a small menagerie, aviary and Clissold Mansion, a Grade II listed building, built for Jonathan Hoare, a local Quaker and brother of Samuel Hoare, in the 1790s.

Although this originally terminated at the New River Head in Finsbury, since 1946 its main flow has ended at Stoke Newington reservoirs, though a slow ornamental trickle flows past the West Reservoir to go underground for a stretch on Green Lanes, reappearing for a time in Clissold Park only to disappear underground again on its way to Canonbury.

Stoke Newington East and West Reservoirs, to the north of Clissold Park, are quite substantial for urban facilities.

Besides the water board facilities and the New River, Clissold Park also contains two large ornamental lakes, a home to many water birds and a population of terrapins.

St Mary's New Church from Clissold Park

His initials ' WP ' and the motto ' ab alto ' can be seen inscribed above the doorway of the old church next to Clissold Park.

The New River in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington.

The algal bloom shows how stagnant the water is at this point, most of it being diverted into London's water supply just north of Clissold Park.

Clissold Park Monument

In 2007, Clissold Park was voted the Heart of Hackney, in an I Love Hackney Poll organised by Hackney Council.

Clissold Park received a Green Flag award in July 2008.

Clissold Park, and its pond, feature in the Hank Wangford song: " Jogging with Jesus ".

The album Ham by London-band The Chap features a song entitled: " Clissold Park ".

The London-based Astrophonica record label features a song by label owners Fracture & Neptune, titled " Clissold " named after the Park.

* Clissold Park User Group

Bolten is the son of Analouise ( née Clissold ) and Seymour Bolten.

The Clissold Arms is on the site of the Fortis Green Brewery which operated from 1843 to 1902.

It then crosses Clissold Park and Abney Park Cemetery before reaching Stoke Newington railway station ; Stoke Newington is also served by the 73 bus.

This is a distortion of Sabellius ' teaching according to Clissold, who quotes scholars who have appealed to Epiphanius ' writings.

Clissold Park is host to great diversity of Australia's fauna and flora and features basketball, netball and children's playground facilities.

There are many Grade II listed properties on Stoke Newington Church Street, the historical heart of the district, and two other notable residential streets to the west of the district – Albion Road and Clissold Road – are replete with listed properties.

The original Adath Israel orthodox congregation was founded in 1911 and its first permanent building was in Alma Road, off Green Lanes, before moving on towards Stoke Newington and the other side of Clissold Park in the 1950s.

After 1811, the estate passed, via the Crawshaw family to Rev Augustus Clissold ; but, when he died in 1882, developers closed in, and activists John Runtz and Joseph Beck convinced the authorities to open it as a public space in 1889.

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.

In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role ( Daphne Whitethigh ), as well as Lady Counterblast ( née Clissold ), Buttercup Gruntfuttock ( wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams ), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others.

Perhaps her most famous catchphrase was " many, many, many times ", delivered in the dry, reedy tones of Bea Clissold, the ancient actress who was renowned for having given pleasure to many, particularly in " The Little Hut " on Shaftsbury Avenue.

This long outlasted the Clissold character and was deployed to much audience appreciation on a few occasions in later series, possibly as an ad lib.

* H. G. Wells-The World of William Clissold

* Clissold, Stephen.