Lakeside Nature Reserve

Lakeside Nature Reserve is a small Site of [Nature Conservation Interest|Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation] in Church End, Finchley in the London [Borough of Barnet].
Its main feature is a pond which was constructed in the late 1890s by Peter Edmund Kay as a reservoir to store rainwater for commercial greenhouses in the Claigmar Vineyard, a large market garden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The pond has a fountain and plants fringing the shore include water mint, gypsywort and purple-loosestrife. Waterfowl nest on a small island, and dragonflies are present in the summer.
There is no public access but it can be viewed from a footpath off Strathmore Gardens.