In 1968 the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority purchased the house and gardens and continue to use Myddelton House as their headquarters, although the School of Pharmacy retained the kitchen gardens to the south-east and the Royal Free Hospital retained the fields to the north, north-west and west of the gardens for use as sports pitches. These fields were known as Reynold's Field and Kenney Land in the C18th and were part of Bulls Cross Farm, becoming part of the Myddelton House property probably following the sale of Forty Hall in 1787 when they were laid out as 'open park scenery' (Keane, 1850). The kitchen garden, whose C19th greenhouses were demolished in the 1960s, is now a Pharmacognosy Garden for studying drugs of plant origin, and is laid out with beds set in grass.
