Off-road running, Saturday mornings.
Join the speed / endurance session led by Middlesex 5000m record holder Jerry Odlin or explore the fields, footpaths, country lanes and woodland of north London's most rural park.
- Meet at 10.15 in the car park next the cafe. See map.
- Session starts with 2 mile jog through woods and may include a bit of everything.
- Road shoes ok in summer but consider studs or spikes in winter.
- Great coffee and lovely food in the cafe afterwards.
Getting there
Trent Park is in Enfield.
Road: follow the drive down from the main entrance off Cockfosters Road, bear left as you go and turn into the first car park on your left.
Tube: Cockfosters, last stop at the northern end of the Picadilly Line. Turn right onto Cockfosters Road. The main entrance to the park is about five minues walk, another five minutes to the car park where everyone meets up.
Rail: New Barnet railway station is just over a mile away.
1752-1818
Local History
Trent Park previously formed part of the royal hunting forest of Enfield Chase.
Once open to the public for the purpose mainly of grazing cattle and collecting firewood,
it spent nearly 200 years in private hands before
being re-opened by Middlesex County Council 1973.
Known now to runners for many an arduous cross country race, it is still grazed by cattle in parts and also by a breeding population of tiny muntjac deer. Although some of the grounds were once landscaped and opened up by Humphry Repton, access is low key with car parks sunk in woodland and traditional meadows.
