PARKS & GARDENS OF LONDON
The largest parks in the central area of London are the Royal Parks of Hyde Park and its neighbour Kensington Gardens at the western edge of central London and Regent's Park on the northern edge.
PARKS & GARDENS OF LONDON:
Buckingham Palace Garden,
Bushy Park,
Chelsea Physic Park,
Green Park,
Greenwich Park,
Hampton Court Park,
Hyde Park,
Kensington Gardens,
Kew Gardens,
Regent's Park,
Richmond Park,
St. James's Park,
Speakers Corner,
Victoria Tower Gardens,
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BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDEN
The Garden at Buckingham Palace is situated at the rear of Buckingham Palace. It covers much of the area of the former Goring Great Garden, named after Lord Goring, occupant of one of the earliest grand houses on the site. It was laid out by Henry Wise and subsequently redesigned for George IV ...
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BUSHY PARK
Bushy Park is the second largest of the Royal Parks of London, at 1,100 acres, and lies immediately north of Hampton Court Palace and Hampton Court Park. It is surrounded by Teddington, Hampton, Hampton Hill and Hampton Wick, and is a few minutes walk from the north side of Kingston Bridge ...
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CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN
The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England in 1673. (The word 'Physic' here refers to the science of healing.) It is the second oldest botanical garden in Britain, after the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, which was founded in 1621 ...
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GREEN PARK
Green Park (officially The Green Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. Covering 47 acres, it lies between London's Hyde Park and St. James's Park. Together with Kensington Gardens and the gardens of Buckingham Palace, these parks form an almost unbroken stretch of open land ...
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GREENWICH PARK
Greenwich Park is a former hunting park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south east London. One of the Royal Parks of London, and the first to be enclosed (in 1433), it covers 183 acres and is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site. It commands fine views over the River Thames and London. ...
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HAMPTON COURT PARK
Hampton Court Park - sometimes called the Home Park - is adjacent to Hampton Court Palace and Gardens in southwest London, United Kingdom. It is a walled deer park of around 700 acres in area and has been open to the public since 1894. The A308 road and the River Thames form its boundaries ...
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HYDE PARK
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England, and one of the Royal Parks of London. The park is divided in two by the Serpentine Lake. The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens, which is widely assumed to be part of Hyde Park, but is technically separate ...
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KENSINGTON GARDENS
Kensington Gardens is one of the royal parks in London, lying immediately to the west of Hyde Park. Most of it is in the City of Westminster, but a small section to the west is in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It covers 275 acres (1.1 kmē). It is sometimes regarded as being part of Hyde Park itself ...
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KEW GARDENS
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is also the name of the organisation that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place ...
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REGENT'S PARK
Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It is in the northern part of central London partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden. It contains Regent's College and the London Zoo. The park has an outer ring road called the Outer Circle ...
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RICHMOND PARK
Richmond Park is a 955 hectares urban park within London. Almost three times as large as New York City's Central Park, it is Britain's largest urban walled park, and the largest of the Royal Parks in London. It is close to Richmond, Ham, Kingston upon Thames, Wimbledon, Roehampton and East Sheen ...
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ST. JAMES'S PARK
St. James's Park is a 23 hectare (58 acre) park in Westminster, central London, the oldest of the Royal Parks of London. The park lies at the southernmost tip of the St. James's area, which was named after a leper hospital dedicated to St. James the Less. St. James's Park is bounded by Buckingham Palace to the west ...
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SPEAKERS CORNER
A Speakers' Corner is an area where public speaking is allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers there are allowed to speak as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law ...
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VICTORIA TOWER GARDENS
Victoria Tower Gardens is a public park along the north bank of the River Thames in London. As its name suggests, it is adjacent to the Victoria Tower, the south-western corner of the Palace of Westminster. The park, which extends southwards from the Palace to Lambeth Bridge, sandwiched between Millbank and the river ...
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