Listria Park and Martaban Road form a crossbow-like figure that takes a bite out of the northern edge of Abney Park. Listria Park roughly follows the course of an underground stream, the Hackney Brook, presumably the reason why that boundary of Sir Thomas Abney's estate did not run in a straight line.
The Community Association was formed in 1993 to promote the welfare of its 120 or so households. The sole qualification for membership is residence in the streets, and its Constitution has a comprehensive anti-discrimination clause. It is an active Association which organizes an annual street party, and has concerned itself with a wide range of issues. It has organized outings for children, obtained improvements in road safety and by working with local agencies helped to achieve joined-up solutions to pressing problems.
The housesholds on the outer edge of Listria Park are privileged to look out at dense woodland beyond their small back gardens. That woodland is Abney Park. In turn, people walking round the outer paths of the cemetery-turned-forest see, at a distance of some 30 feet beyond the cemetery wall, the weathered yellow bricks of modest Victorian houses. This is the "intimate" setting that Hackney policy-makers were last year vowing to preserve.