Highgate Wood

Ambitious about Autism is a UK national charity which aims to improve opportunities for young people on the Autistic Spectrum, including those with autism or Asperger syndrome. Originally established in 1997 as the TreeHouse Trust, the charity was founded by a group of parents – including author Nick Hornby – whose first child had been diagnosed with autism.Their mission has been described as being to "help children and young people with autism to learn, thrive and achieve – making the ordinary possible."It is known for operating TreeHouse School in Muswell Hill, north London, Ambitious College which has campuses in Tottenham and Isleworth, London and The Rise School, based in Feltham, west London. TreeHouse School was rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in its 2017 inspection.

Cranley Gardens railway station was a station in the Muswell Hill area of north London. It was located between Highgate and Muswell Hill stations, at the junction of Muswell Hill Road and Cranley Gardens. Nothing remains of the station today and its site is now occupied by housing and a school. In the 1930s, plans were made to electrify the line and transfer the mainline service to London Underground's Northern line, but these were abandoned after the Second World War. The station closed for passengers in 1954 and for goods in 1957.

Asanté Academy of Chinese Medicine is a medical college in Highgate, London in the Borough of Haringey, London, England.Founded in 2000, the Academy offers training in many branches of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), including tui na massage, acupuncture, Chinese herbology, t'ai chi ch'uan and qigong. Working in concert with a treatment centre at the same site, the Academy offers a variety of courses, including a 4-year degree programme in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is validated by Middlesex University. This 4-year course of studies was the first ever to be jointly run and validated by Peking University and a university in Europe. As of September 2009, there were over 150 students enrolled on this course.

The Highgate Wood telephone exchange was the first all-electronic telephone exchange in Britain. It was built in the London suburb of Highgate by members from Joint Electronic Research Council (JERC).

Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between East Finchley and Archway stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station was originally opened in 1867, on the Great Northern Railway's line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of their only partially completed Northern Heights plan, the London Underground started serving the station in 1941, using new platforms in tunnels beneath the surface station. The platforms of the surface station remain, but were last used in 1954; the section of the line through them to Finsbury Park was closed in 1970 and lifted by 1972. One of the original 1867 station buildings still exists and is in use as a private house.

Queen's Wood is a 52-acre (21 hectare) area of ancient woodland in the London Borough of Haringey, abutting Highgate Wood and lying between East Finchley, Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch End. It was originally part of the ancient Forest of Middlesex which covered much of London, Hertfordshire and Essex and was mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is now one of three Local Nature Reserves in the London Borough of Haringey. It is situated a few minutes' walk from Highgate tube station. Haringey contains four ancient woods. These are Highgate Wood, Queen's Wood, Coldfall Wood and Bluebell Wood. All are shown on John Rocque's 1754 Map of Middlesex. Queen's Wood was once called Churchyard Bottom Wood, and was originally part of the Great Forest of Middlesex. It was said to be the site of a plague pit during the Great Plague of London, although evidence suggests if there was a plague pit it was just outside the boundaries of the current wood. In 1898 it was purchased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by Hornsey Urban District Council, opened to the public by Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany, and renamed Queen's Wood in honour of Queen Victoria. The wood is an ancient oak-hornbeam woodland, which features English oak and occasional beech which provide a canopy above cherry, field maple, hazel, holly, hornbeam, midland hawthorn, mountain ash and both species of lowland birch. The scarce Wild Service Tree (which is evidence of the Woods's ancient origin) is scattered throughout the wood. The Wood has a small adventure playground, but no park or playing fields, and has never been subjected to intensive management of the type practised at Highgate Wood and accordingly there is greater diversity of flora and fauna - Bantock (1984) found a significantly greater number of ground feeding birds present in the Wood when compared to Highgate Wood, which he attributed to the greater structural diversity and denser shrub layer present. Queen's Wood is a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.The ground flora is particularly rich given its proximity to central London (the wood is within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross railway station). It includes a large population of wood anemone, goldilocks buttercup and wood sorrel, yellow pimpernel and square-stemmed St John's wort. A survey conducted in 1984 noted 39 distinct herbaceous species and 15 different grasses native to the wood, in addition to some 23 species of tree and shrub. A small paddling pool which had fallen into disuse has been converted into a pond with wild aquatic plants. This was with the assistance of the Friends of Queens Wood society. Despite fairly high levels of disturbance, the bird life is diverse and includes breeding pairs of at least 27 species, including the endangered song thrush and two species of woodpecker. Over one hundred species of spiders have been spotted and a nationally rare jewel beetle is widespread.The park is also the source of the Moselle, a stream that runs across parts of North London on its way (nowadays via Pymmes Brook) to the River Lea in Tottenham.

The Everyman Cinema, Muswell Hill, formerly The Odeon, is a grade II* listed building with Historic England. It was designed by George Coles.

107–123 Muswell Hill Road is a grade II listed parade of shops in Muswell Hill Road, Muswell Hill, London.The building adjoins the grade II* listed Everyman Cinema, formerly the Odeon Cinema, at its north end.

St James Church, Muswell Hill, is a large Anglican church in London, known as "the Church on the Hill".

The Gables is a block of flats in Fortis Green, on the edge of Muswell Hill, London, and a grade II listed building with Historic England. The building was constructed in 1907 to a design by Herbert and William Collins in the Arts and Crafts and Jugendstil style.

Birchwood Mansions is a block of flats in Fortis Green Road, Muswell Hill, London, and a grade II listed building with Historic England. The building was constructed in 1907 to a design by W.J. and William Collins in the Arts and Crafts style.

Jacksons Lane Arts Centre (JLAC) is a multi-arts venue in Highgate, north London, located in a Grade II listed former Wesleyan Methodist church. The building is home to a 170 capacity theatre, a large scale dance and rehearsal studio, a cafe-bar and four other multi-purpose spaces. In 2022 it completed a large-scale £5 million refurbishment & redevelopment of the building with the majority of the funding coming from Arts Council England & Haringey Council. JLAC is now more accessible, has greater facilities, a larger front of house area and two new circus creation spaces.