The park represents the lungs of central Hackney, with 12.65 hectares of mainly grassed fields and straight paths lined with stately mature London Plane trees. There are 2 new tennis courts and regular cricket and football matches are played in season on the fields. For the children, the 2 children's playgrounds are always in use, while the paddling pool gets packed out of a summer.

The main feature of the area is the London Fields Lido, a 50x17m heated open-air pool that reopened in Oct. 2006, just off Richmond Road. The first in London rebuilt to modern standards with excellent disabled access, it opened with 25°C heated water. After 18 years of closure, the low red brick 1930's buildings hide (Tardis like) an enormous modern pool. We are looking forward to the winter roof to allow school swimming in term time and the café as promised for 2007.

The park, less than 2.5 miles from London Bridge, can truly be said to be in central London. The streets bordering the park are Richmond Road, London Fields West Side, Lansdowne Drive, Westgate Street (by the popular Broadway Market) London Fields East Side, Martello Street and Eleanor Road, which still contain many attractive Victorian and Georgian houses.

Because of these attractive facilities the area has become very popular. Estate agents refer to the whole area now as London Fields. Originally ancient common land, this Open Space is owned and managed by the London Borough of Hackney under the 1872 open space act.