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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Does anyone know what this is?

It's in Newland field, between Campsbourne and the racetrack at Ally Pally. You can't see that it's there when you're on the ground (easily) but Google have spotted it.

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There was an old rotting concrete helicopter landing stage (circular 12 feet diameter at grass level) there when i was there 25 years ago at a picnic.

That's still there:

re Landing stage for a Concrete Helicopter: James, I know that concrete is sometimes used for the hulls of boats, but for the construction of helicopters? This is a silly notion because, on account of their lightness, aluminium and magnesium are better suited to the task of fabricating flying machines.

No, no, no! James didn't mean a helicopter made out of concrete, he meant a Concrete Helicopter. You know - one of these.

 

It looks like a drainage system ?

 

A gigantic fossil kipper ?

My first thoughts were drainage, but I like the kipper theory a lot better. :)
Allotments?
Just a guess, but it looks a lot like a system in our local park ....
In an area that is prone to waterlogging e.g. due to direct rainfall or water emerging from the hillside, narrow channels are dug and filled with sand. The water follows the channels,which are all directed down the hill and converge into a single channel. I would imagine there is a drain at the end or a pipe into one of those reservoirs.
I think the park must need something like this to deal with all the rainfall that soaks into the ground over such a large area,and would then naturally start to make its way downhill. For example, there is a spring that emerges from the hill just above the curve of Redston Road and runs into a pool among the trees there.
Damn , I wanted to say fossil kipper - easily the best and most convincing answer
Sorry to blow your wild imagination, but it is field drainage.  What you can see is the browning off of the grass above where the underground drains are laid as that's where it is at its driest (due to the drains below), or they're newly laid and the grass hasn't  grown over them yet.  They take water from across the field to the nearest natural drainage beyond the field.  It probably would have been a very wet site, and for some reason the owner has had drains installed.
Looks like drainage channels to me.

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