Gunpowder Park

Gunpowder Park is 90 hectares of new country park for the benefit of people, wildlife and the arts. Through a multimillion pound investment by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, the park land has been reclaimed from its former use as a Royal Ordnance munitions testing facility. After 100 years as a closed site, it was opened in 2004 as a dynamic new landscape, the largest open space in the region for the arts and the environment - although just outside the North London boroughs.

Gunpowder Park was created with a specific remit to provide an innovative programme which focuses on arts, science and nature. The Park’s heritage of experimentation informs the creative policy and explores the meaning and use of open space in our society through research, arts-led collaborations, education, events and publishing. The programme is developed and produced by Landscape+Arts Network Services, in partnership with Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.