| London Parks.... 14:47 - Oct 4 with 13344 views | Boston |
...got a favourite? People often ask me about things I like to do when back in town and the parks are something I always enjoy. Hard to pinpoint why exactly but appreciate the high level of maintenance and the general lay outs, Strangely, well I think it’s strange, my most pleasurable walks are in the colder months, particularly on the morning of a frost, Regents Park from south to north is a regular stroll, though love those smaller inner city spaces like Tavistock Square. Of course, Queens Park is rarely off my mind. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 15:27 - Apr 24 with 2229 views | MrSheen |
If you have small kids, you can easily lose an hour or two in the woods at Sheen Common, alongside Richmond Park. Twisty paths through the thick undergrowth, squelchy mud and lots of sudden dips and rises, the aftermath of old brick pits, apparently. For a fairly small space, it's surprisingly easy to feel totally lost, particularly when you can't see the sky. |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:14 - Apr 24 with 2166 views | colinallcars |
I did a six month summer job in Ravenscourt park as an assistant gardener in the 70s. It was smarter then but I've always loved it with the Raven and Thatched House pubs nearby.
Richmond park and Holland park as well. For a real outlier….the Gunnersbury Triangle.
Don't forget Kew Gardens - not a park but wonderful. Again with nice pubs locally especially the Tap On The Line. |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:18 - Apr 24 with 2163 views | Boston |
| London Parks.... on 10:38 - Apr 24 by queensparker |
Found a new one for me recently, Fryent Country Park up near Wembley. Surprisingly beautiful big wild aaea in a sh*tty part of London, had some amazing walks with kids through there.
Took the gloss off it a bit when a psycho stabbed a young woman recently, but aside from that really recommend it.
Holland / Richmond / Gunnersbury / Chiswick / Walpole / Lammas / Blondin / Ravenscourt /Osterley all a big part of my childhood. We're so lucky to have them. [Post edited 24 Apr 2023 16:39]
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'Shitty' part of London! Kingsbury NW9, though not exactly sure where the line with Wembley lies, we spent many an hour up on Barn Hill or running amok in the foundations of the wartime council houses. | |
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| London Parks.... on 17:01 - Apr 24 with 2099 views | LimehouseR |
| London Parks.... on 11:02 - Oct 5 by Boston |
Horsenden Hill, well that triggers memories. Board the 245 on East Lane, alight at Sudbury Town, easy walk then hours of non parented malarky. Another vote for this green space, big swing(where my youngest brother broke an arm), canal(where I fell in), golf course(where we nicked balls while in play  )great views, running with dogs.... |
Horenden Hill is fantastic and they are releasing a pair of beavers down there in the Autumn!
It also has the Perivale Brewery just down in the corner by the canal. They have tap days every few weeks and it is actually perfect for any R's coming down on the central line to Loftus Road as it is a 5-10 minute walk from Perivale station for an easy stop off. You can order stone oven pizzas too and there is a bakery with local procure, cakes/sausage rolls/etc. All the beer is made on site and they always have interesting brews! |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 17:07 - Apr 24 with 2095 views | ARudd |
Battersea Park.
It's one of the most diverse (activity-wise) of all the parks, with the choice of big green open spaces, Go Ape, an Adventure Playground and a Zoo for the kids, plus a Boating Lake, tennis courts, sports centre and running track in the middle, and numerous all-weather football & hockey pitches and and cricket in the summer.
There's a 5km pedestrian/ cycling path circumnavigating it and you can hire bikes too. A couple of cafes and you are also on the edge of the river where, I think, is central London's only Pagoda in a park. The Peace Pagodas, there are 80 around the World, including the site in Battersea, were built as part of Buddhist monk Nichidatsu Fujii’s (1885—1985) advocacy for world peace and non-violence.
It's also next door to the recently opened and revamped Battersea Power Station, which is great.
Always a favourite of ours and our Canadian relatives when they come to visit. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 17:42 - Apr 24 with 2032 views | Boston |
| London Parks.... on 17:07 - Apr 24 by ARudd |
Battersea Park.
It's one of the most diverse (activity-wise) of all the parks, with the choice of big green open spaces, Go Ape, an Adventure Playground and a Zoo for the kids, plus a Boating Lake, tennis courts, sports centre and running track in the middle, and numerous all-weather football & hockey pitches and and cricket in the summer.
There's a 5km pedestrian/ cycling path circumnavigating it and you can hire bikes too. A couple of cafes and you are also on the edge of the river where, I think, is central London's only Pagoda in a park. The Peace Pagodas, there are 80 around the World, including the site in Battersea, were built as part of Buddhist monk Nichidatsu Fujii’s (1885—1985) advocacy for world peace and non-violence.
It's also next door to the recently opened and revamped Battersea Power Station, which is great.
Always a favourite of ours and our Canadian relatives when they come to visit. |
Good call. Enjoy a stroll over Albert Bridge, along the river in Battersea Park, then back over via Chelsea Bridge. | |
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| London Parks.... on 17:45 - Apr 24 with 2029 views | hubble |
| London Parks.... on 01:04 - Oct 5 by Boston |
Apart from being full of ‘high’ people, anyone familiar with Itchy(coo) park? |
I have it on good authority (from a mate that lives there) that Itchycoo Park is Christ Church meadow in Oxford.
This is one of those gems of a thread that makes LFW so special. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 17:53 - Apr 24 with 2023 views | johann28 |
| London Parks.... on 10:25 - Apr 24 by TacticalR |
Behind the bushes Regent's Park has a little university in it: Regent's University.
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Used to be Bedford College, then part of London University, until it got sold off and then swallowed up by Royal Holloway in the 80s. |  | | |
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| London Parks.... on 20:16 - Apr 24 with 1951 views | CiderwithRsie |
| London Parks.... on 17:53 - Apr 24 by johann28 |
Used to be Bedford College, then part of London University, until it got sold off and then swallowed up by Royal Holloway in the 80s. |
Bedford College used to be in those buildings, but never owned them - it was a long lease from the Crown Estate. That's why they merged with Royal Holloway, because they knew they were going to get evicted, whereas Holloway owned their site down at Egham (which is massive) so plenty of room for them.
The Regents College/University thing is a private, American owned, deal.
(I applied to Bedford when I was at school and went for an interview in those buildings, it was lovely, but my Dad worked for the University of London at the time and warned me off - told me I'd probably end up in Egham which he had down as Sarf Of The River and Not Proper London.) | | | |
| London Parks.... on 20:42 - Apr 24 with 1909 views | MrSheen |
| London Parks.... on 20:16 - Apr 24 by CiderwithRsie |
Bedford College used to be in those buildings, but never owned them - it was a long lease from the Crown Estate. That's why they merged with Royal Holloway, because they knew they were going to get evicted, whereas Holloway owned their site down at Egham (which is massive) so plenty of room for them.
The Regents College/University thing is a private, American owned, deal.
(I applied to Bedford when I was at school and went for an interview in those buildings, it was lovely, but my Dad worked for the University of London at the time and warned me off - told me I'd probably end up in Egham which he had down as Sarf Of The River and Not Proper London.) |
I did a night school course at Regents College a few years ago. Leaving about 9pm and walking round the Inner Circle, across the Euston Road and down into Regents Park tube, you wouldn’t know you were in Central London, there’s no-one around. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 20:45 - Apr 24 with 1890 views | MrSheen |
| London Parks.... on 17:01 - Apr 24 by LimehouseR |
Horenden Hill is fantastic and they are releasing a pair of beavers down there in the Autumn!
It also has the Perivale Brewery just down in the corner by the canal. They have tap days every few weeks and it is actually perfect for any R's coming down on the central line to Loftus Road as it is a 5-10 minute walk from Perivale station for an easy stop off. You can order stone oven pizzas too and there is a bakery with local procure, cakes/sausage rolls/etc. All the beer is made on site and they always have interesting brews! |
Horsenden Hill has always had a terror for me. When our school pitches in Perivale were unplayable, we were sent for a cross country up that effing hill! | | | |
| London Parks.... on 21:40 - Apr 24 with 1849 views | hubble |
| London Parks.... on 20:45 - Apr 24 by MrSheen |
Horsenden Hill has always had a terror for me. When our school pitches in Perivale were unplayable, we were sent for a cross country up that effing hill! |
When our pitches were unplayable we were sent to run around the river; over Hammersmith Bridge, along the Barnes towpath to Barnes Bridge, then over that and back through Duke's Meadows and along Chiswick Mall. I know it's not a park, but what a beautiful stretch of London this is, with verdant nature on the Barnes side, incredible history on both sides (The 17th Dove pub, where Rule Britannia was written; Kelmscott House where Sir Francis Ronald set up the first working telegraph and later where William Morris lived; Walpole House on Chiswick Mall where Thackeray went to school and where he based the girls' school in Vanity Fair are just a few examples), Chiswick Eyot, Fuller's Brewery.....
And we bloody hated it! | |
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| London Parks.... on 21:46 - Apr 24 with 1841 views | MrSheen |
| London Parks.... on 21:40 - Apr 24 by hubble |
When our pitches were unplayable we were sent to run around the river; over Hammersmith Bridge, along the Barnes towpath to Barnes Bridge, then over that and back through Duke's Meadows and along Chiswick Mall. I know it's not a park, but what a beautiful stretch of London this is, with verdant nature on the Barnes side, incredible history on both sides (The 17th Dove pub, where Rule Britannia was written; Kelmscott House where Sir Francis Ronald set up the first working telegraph and later where William Morris lived; Walpole House on Chiswick Mall where Thackeray went to school and where he based the girls' school in Vanity Fair are just a few examples), Chiswick Eyot, Fuller's Brewery.....
And we bloody hated it! |
Flat though, you lucky buggers. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 21:49 - Apr 24 with 1838 views | hubble |
| London Parks.... on 21:46 - Apr 24 by MrSheen |
Flat though, you lucky buggers. |
Haha, true!
And plenty of places to sneak off for a quick smoke as well.... | |
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| London Parks.... on 22:36 - Apr 24 with 1798 views | TacticalR |
@CiderwithRsie 'The Regents College/University thing is a private, American owned, deal.'
It's the most expensive university in the UK for undergraduate courses, as the fees aren't capped as they are at other universities. It seems like a Swiss finishing school, except in London. Jamie Reuben, who was on the QPR board for a while (now an owner at Newcastle), went there. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 10:23 - Apr 25 with 1644 views | robith |
| London Parks.... on 20:16 - Apr 24 by CiderwithRsie |
Bedford College used to be in those buildings, but never owned them - it was a long lease from the Crown Estate. That's why they merged with Royal Holloway, because they knew they were going to get evicted, whereas Holloway owned their site down at Egham (which is massive) so plenty of room for them.
The Regents College/University thing is a private, American owned, deal.
(I applied to Bedford when I was at school and went for an interview in those buildings, it was lovely, but my Dad worked for the University of London at the time and warned me off - told me I'd probably end up in Egham which he had down as Sarf Of The River and Not Proper London.) |
Funny isn't it, in my younger days when I was less tolerant I was at University of London uni but I used to get so sniffy if people said "same! Royal Holloway/Goldsmiths". Oh. You're one of those are you.
But I married someone who went to Goldsmiths so that banter ran dry fairly quickly |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:20 - Apr 25 with 1533 views | johann28 |
| London Parks.... on 20:16 - Apr 24 by CiderwithRsie |
Bedford College used to be in those buildings, but never owned them - it was a long lease from the Crown Estate. That's why they merged with Royal Holloway, because they knew they were going to get evicted, whereas Holloway owned their site down at Egham (which is massive) so plenty of room for them.
The Regents College/University thing is a private, American owned, deal.
(I applied to Bedford when I was at school and went for an interview in those buildings, it was lovely, but my Dad worked for the University of London at the time and warned me off - told me I'd probably end up in Egham which he had down as Sarf Of The River and Not Proper London.) |
That's cutting a very long story short. I was involved in the negotiations at the time (trying to save Bedford) and I'm still bitter about the way it was all handled. The property was leased from so-called Crown Estate (which of course isn't owned by the Crown, but the State) but the then Principal (a devious crook called Dorothea Wedderburn) and her minions decided not to renew it. There was nothing inevitable about the 'merger' with RHC. Meanwhile, Wedderburn, surprise, surprise, got a nice salary rise by becoming joint principal of the 'new' University and promptly set off on a round of staff cuts / sale of artwork etc). No disrespect for those there now, but it could have remained as part of London Uni given sufficient willpower and I still find it very sad that the lease was effectively sold to highest bidder and thus subsequently taken up by a very privileged American institution. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:29 - Apr 25 with 1513 views | queensparker |
| London Parks.... on 21:40 - Apr 24 by hubble |
When our pitches were unplayable we were sent to run around the river; over Hammersmith Bridge, along the Barnes towpath to Barnes Bridge, then over that and back through Duke's Meadows and along Chiswick Mall. I know it's not a park, but what a beautiful stretch of London this is, with verdant nature on the Barnes side, incredible history on both sides (The 17th Dove pub, where Rule Britannia was written; Kelmscott House where Sir Francis Ronald set up the first working telegraph and later where William Morris lived; Walpole House on Chiswick Mall where Thackeray went to school and where he based the girls' school in Vanity Fair are just a few examples), Chiswick Eyot, Fuller's Brewery.....
And we bloody hated it! |
We went to the same school!
I used to quite enjoy that run (when I got old enough to do it without collapsing) |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 17:00 - Apr 25 with 1463 views | SK_hoops |
Blondin Park (or the rec as we called it), not technically speaking, but, played footy there practically every day for a large chunk of my childhood. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 17:32 - Apr 25 with 1432 views | NW5Hoop |
I think the Heath is incomparable, and it has everything, all in a pretty small area. You can be in teeming summer crowds, you've got multiple places to swim (lido as well as the ponds), you've got an excellent chance of celeb spotting. Or you can be very much alone even on a hot summer weekend if you go exploring — you can find a meadow all to yourself. You've got amazing views, and when they have concerts there - at Kenwood — it doesn't ruin the rest of the Heath. I
We've been doing the Capital Ring and been taken through loads of parks. I agree with everyone who says Richmond is amazing (though given it's a TW10 postcode, does it actually count as a London park?).
A big shout though for the tiny but wonderful Camley Street Natural Park in King's Cross, a perfect little nature reserve on the south side of the canal. [Post edited 26 Apr 2023 13:03]
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| London Parks.... on 19:05 - Apr 25 with 1381 views | hubble |
| London Parks.... on 16:29 - Apr 25 by queensparker |
We went to the same school!
I used to quite enjoy that run (when I got old enough to do it without collapsing) |
Ha, how about that. What vintage - if you don't mind letting people know your age! | |
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| London Parks.... on 19:25 - Apr 25 with 1367 views | MrSheen |
| London Parks.... on 17:32 - Apr 25 by NW5Hoop |
I think the Heath is incomparable, and it has everything, all in a pretty small area. You can be in teeming summer crowds, you've got multiple places to swim (lido as well as the ponds), you've got an excellent chance of celeb spotting. Or you can be very much alone even on a hot summer weekend if you go exploring — you can find a meadow all to yourself. You've got amazing views, and when they have concerts there - at Kenwood — it doesn't ruin the rest of the Heath. I
We've been doing the Capital Ring and been taken through loads of parks. I agree with everyone who says Richmond is amazing (though given it's a TW10 postcode, does it actually count as a London park?).
A big shout though for the tiny but wonderful Camley Street Natural Park in King's Cross, a perfect little nature reserve on the south side of the canal. [Post edited 26 Apr 2023 13:03]
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Oi! Our end of Richmond Park is SW14, Roehampton SW15. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 12:27 - Apr 26 with 1243 views | wood_hoop |
'A big shout thought for the tiny but wonderful Camley Street Natural Park in King's Cross, a perfect little nature reserve on the south side of the canal.'
A little oasis for the kids in Camden, my two spent many a happy hour learning so much about the natural things that can abound even in a concrete jungle, staff there were tremendous, |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 12:46 - Apr 26 with 1211 views | Discodroids |
The Old Man, East Ham Dave, always insisted '' itchycoo park ' was Plashet Park, a stone's throw from Marriots birthplace in Strone Road, Forest Gate. Ronnie Lane a local lad as well.
Edit:, some say Loxford park in nearby south Ilford, according to Wiki... [Post edited 26 Apr 2023 12:48]
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| London Parks.... on 13:26 - Apr 26 with 1174 views | SimonJames |
I was born at Hyde Park Corner, so I vote that one.
Also, I lived next to Richmond Park for the best part of twenty years, and there was no better way to start the day than an early summer morning jog, in a quiet park, with just the deer and woodpeckers for companions. |  |
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