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Skeltons Lane, LONDON, E10 5DF

Skelton Lane Park has been renamed Jack Cornwell Park in honour of 16 years old local lad Jack Cornwell, the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery at the Battle of Jutland in the First World War when he was killed - see https://heritage.scouts.org.uk/exhibitions/scouting-in-the-first-world-war/jack-cornwell-a-true-scout/

Brooks Farm is situated at the eastern end of Skeltons Lane Park, and is a familiar sight for anyone travelling on the Barking to Gospel Oak Line between Leyton Midland Road and Walthamstow Queen's Road. It has been a feature of community life in Leyton since the late 1980s. Along with a range of animals, including alpacas, sheep, donkeys, ponies, goats, rabbits and hens, it also offers a range of farm based learning activities for the wider community. In 2014, the management of Brooks Farm was transferred from the London Borough of Waltham Forest to youth homelessness charity Forest YMCA for a period of twenty five years. It was then transferred to Capel Manor College but at the end of 2022 it was no longer open to the public and its future was uncertain - see https://www.capel.ac.uk/news/capel-manor-colleges-statement-for-brooks-farm/

Skelton Lane Park has been renamed Jack Cornwell Park in honour of 16 years old local lad Jack Cornwell, the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery at the Battle of Jutland in the First World War when he was killed - see https://heritage.scouts.org.uk/exhibitions/scouting-in-the-first-world-war/jack-cornwell-a-true-scout/

Skeltons Lane Park has recently been redeveloped with a new dry river bed landscape and other features at a cost of £290,000. This is the entrance from Byron Road. The other entrance to the park is from Skeltons Road. At the far end of the park is Brooks Farm. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4305195 for more information. Update: the park has now been renamed Jack Cornwell Park (see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7343703) and Brooks Farm is no longer open to the public.

Skelton Lane Park has been renamed Jack Cornwell Park in honour of 16 years old local lad Jack Cornwell, the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery at the Battle of Jutland in the First World War when he was killed - see https://heritage.scouts.org.uk/exhibitions/scouting-in-the-first-world-war/jack-cornwell-a-true-scout/

Skelton Lane Park has been renamed Jack Cornwell Park in honour of 16 years old local lad Jack Cornwell, the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery at the Battle of Jutland in the First World War when he was killed - see https://heritage.scouts.org.uk/exhibitions/scouting-in-the-first-world-war/jack-cornwell-a-true-scout/ This is the entrance from Byron Road.

Brooks Farm is situated at the eastern end of Skeltons Lane Park, and is a familiar sight for anyone travelling on the Barking to Gospel Oak Line between Leyton Midland Road and Walthamstow Queen's Road. It has been a feature of community life in Leyton since the late 1980s. Along with a range of animals, including alpacas, sheep, donkeys, ponies, goats, rabbits and hens, it also offers a range of farm based learning activities for the wider community. In 2014, the management of Brooks Farm was transferred from the London Borough of Waltham Forest to youth homelessness charity Forest YMCA for a period of twenty five years. It was then transferred to Capel Manor College but at the end of 2022 it was no longer open to the public and its future was uncertain - see https://www.capel.ac.uk/news/capel-manor-colleges-statement-for-brooks-farm/