Henry Barnfield Fund, a charity dedicated to finding a cure for pediatric brain cancer
The area itself is mainly built up residential, but the River Lea runs through and there is a green space surrounding the path of the river.
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The area was already famous for the finds of numerous Palaeolithic-era handaxes—mostly Acheulean and Clactonian artifacts, some as much as 400,000 years old—when in 1935/1936 work at Barnfield Pit uncovered two fossilised skull fragments.