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[[File:King George V Field sign, Totteridge.JPG|thumb|Sign to remaining part of King George V Playing Fields]]
[[File:King George V Field logo, Totteridge.JPG|thumb|Logo on stone plinth in field removed in 2012]]
'''King George V Playing Fields''' is an area of playing fields of approximately {{convert|14|acre}} in [[Totteridge]] in the [[London Borough of Barnet]]. It is located south east of the junction of Barnet Lane and [[Dollis Brook]].
Following the death of [[George V|King George V]] in 1936 the [[King George's Fields|King George's Fields Foundation]] was established to give grants for the establishment of playing fields, the work of the foundation is now undertaken by charity [[Fields in Trust]]. The Totteridge fields were originally the third largest of all King George's Fields at {{convert|93|acre}}, and the Foundation gave a grant of £3,000 towards the total capital cost of £62,335.<ref>''King George's Fields Foundation, Final Report'', 1965, p. 27</ref> King George V Playing Fields, Totteridge have been legally protected since July 1943. <ref name="King George V Playing Fields, Totteridge">{{cite web|url=https://www.fieldsintrust.org/FieldSite/King-George-V-Playing-Fields,-Totteridge|title=King George V Playing Fields|website=Fields in Trust |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref> The rules of the Foundation required permanent preservation of the area as a King George's Field as a memorial to the king,<ref>''Final Report'', p. 12</ref> but less than a fifth of the original size remains.
The ''Master Atlas of Greater London'' shows King George's Fields extending west across Barnet Lane into what is now a farmer's field,<ref>''Master Atlas of Greater London'' (2009) Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd, p. 31</ref> and there used to be two 'King George's Fields' logos on stone plinths in the entrance to the field, but in 2012 the plinths were vandalised and the logos removed. North of the current King George's Fields is an area of public open space called Barnet Playing Fields, an area of {{convert|72|acre}} laid out in 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnet.gov.uk/info/940044/barnet/740/barnet/4 |publisher=London Borough of Barnet |title=Underhill and Pricklers Hill |accessdate=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928180100/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/info/940044/barnet/740/barnet/4 |archivedate=28 September 2012 }}</ref> It is unclear whether this was ever part of King George's Fields.
Since 2016 it has been the home of [[St Kiernan's GFC]], one of London's leading [[Gaelic football]] clubs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stkiernansgaa.com/contact|title=St Kiernans Contact Page|website=St Kiernans | accessdate = 16 January 2022 }}</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of King George V Playing Fields in London]]
==References==
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