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Cheyneys Avenue, EDGWARE, HA8 6SE

Viewed through the northern entrance gates to The George V Memorial Garden Image the Temple dates from the early 1800s and is a listed structure that originally had a palm house at its front. After suffering vandalism and a fire it has recently been completely refurbished by Harrow Council, the remedial works having been funded by part of a £1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to the overall restoration of Canons Park.

London Underground Jubilee Line train between Canons Park station and the terminus at Stanmore.

Four clumps of pampas grass (cortaderia selloana) stand at the corners of the pond at the centre of the garden, which was created inside the walls of the former kitchen garden of the estate when management of Canons Park passed to the local authority in 1937. The garden was set out to accord with the Golden Ratio whereby the ratio between the sum of two quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller one. The golden ratio is approximately 1.618.

Cheyneys Avenue takes a 90 degree turn to the right with part of Canons Park on the left and the railway behind the houses.

The Temple is a surviving remnant of the original landscaped gardens of the mansion at Canons, and is a Grade II Listed Building. The Historic England website describes it (abridged) thus:- "Garden Temple, supporting walls and raised paved area in Canons Park. Early C19. Red brick with stone dressing. Ionic tetrastyle portico with pediment. Wing walls. Rear has distyle portico in antis. Wing walls and raised paved area in front. Interior rendered." An information board in the park illustrates how it might have originally looked with a substantial glass palmhouse attached to the front here.

This splendid tree, which is between the Image and Image, has been identified as a Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum) in its autumn guise - one of the few deciduous conifers, with apple-green young leaves in spring. The bark is light brown, dark orange in a few places, with vertical striations. The colour is unedited from the original camera exposure and fairly reflects what the tree looked like on the day. The tree is individually visible on satellite imagery with green summer foliage, and also visible over the wall in Image taken in December with less vegetation on it.

Originally part of the estates of the Augustinian Canons of St Bartholomew in Smithfield, London. The park later became the site of a short lived mansion called Cannons, built and demolished during the middle years of the 18th century. Now a park, some remnants of the landscaped gardens are still there, including a building called The Temple, which once had a glass house or orangery on the front. History on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_Park

Semi-detached houses line the eastern side of Cheyneys Avenue. Not unusually nowadays, many of the front gardens have been paved over as car parks.