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The Longford River, cut for Charles I in the 1630s to carry water from the Colne to Hampton Court, still runs through the park and feeds the gardens.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/bushy-park.jpg?v=3a924841","thumb":"/img/bushy-park-480.jpg?v=758249c7","width":1024,"height":768,"alt":"Chestnut trees in early Autumn","caption":"","credit":"Photo by Ojw at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","credit_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BushyParkAutumn.jpg","thumb_width":480},"whats_on":[{"slug":"the-deer-rut-in-bushy-park","name":"The deer rut in Bushy Park","href":"/outdoors/bushy-park/the-deer-rut-in-bushy-park/","verdict":"The same spectacle as Richmond, with a fraction of the people watching it.","runs":{"from":"2026-09-15","to":"2026-11-08"},"types":["free","nature"],"clue":[]}],"maps_q":"Bushy Park, Hampton Court Road, TW12 2EJ, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"National Physical Laboratory","s":"national-physical-laboratory","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":1173},{"n":"RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival","s":"rhs-hampton-court-garden-festival","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":1301},{"n":"Hampton Court Palace","s":"hampton-court-palace","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":1301}],"near_same":[{"s":"goboat-kingston","m":2189},{"s":"goboat-thames-ditton","m":2609},{"s":"york-house-gardens","m":3723},{"s":"isabella-plantation","m":5160},{"s":"richmond-park","m":5437},{"s":"wimbledon-common","m":7416}]},{"slug":"camley-street-natural-park","name":"Camley Street Natural Park","maps_name":null,"area":"King's Cross","address":"12 Camley Street, N1C 4PW","station":"London St. Pancras International","walk":3,"lat":51.534627,"lng":-0.127487,"geo":null,"hours":[[10.0,17.0],[10.0,17.0],[10.0,17.0],[10.0,17.0],[10.0,17.0],[10.0,17.0],[10.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 10:00-17:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/nature-reserves/camley-street-natural-park","hours_short":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-03","hours_extra":null,"runs":null,"website":"https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/nature-reserves/camley-street-natural-park","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["free","wildlife"],"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"verdict":"Two acres of woodland and pond on a coal yard, behind St Pancras.","note":"A London Wildlife Trust reserve wedged between the canal and the railway, on ground that was a Victorian coal drop. Reedbed, pond-dipping platform, kingfishers and enough birdsong to drown out the trains, five minutes from the Eurostar terminal. 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Formal lawns and a sunken garden lie near the top, and the slope below them is planted with azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias that come out together in May. There is an aviary, a herb garden and a tree collection worth walking round on its own. Merton council took the park on in 1949 and it is historically protected in its own right, not merely as the setting for the house. 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The Ashford line reaches Folkestone, Dover and Canterbury more slowly than the fast trains from St Pancras but from the middle of town, and Rye, the hill town above the marsh, with a change at Ashford. Waterloo East, its twin across the footbridge, is the same trains one stop on.","note_links":[{"phrase":"Knole","href":"https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/knole"},{"phrase":"Hastings","href":"https://www.visit1066country.com/"},{"phrase":"Dover","href":"https://www.whitecliffscountry.org.uk/"},{"phrase":"Canterbury","href":"https://www.canterbury.co.uk/"},{"phrase":"Rye","href":"https://visitrye.co.uk/"}],"figure":{"src":"/img/charing-cross-station.jpg?v=71a078fe","thumb":"/img/charing-cross-station-480.jpg?v=27391467","width":1024,"height":576,"alt":"A long wall of white chalk cliffs above a calm sea under a sky of grey and white cloud, with a small white lighthouse on the green clifftop.","caption":"The white cliffs of Dover. 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It is still arranged on that principle: beds laid out by what a plant is for and where it came from, rather than by how it looks together, and more than 4,500 medicinal, edible and useful species in four acres.\n\nThe walls and the river make it several degrees warmer than the streets outside, which is why things grow here that should not - the largest olive tree in Britain among them. 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The palace burned on the night of 30 November 1936, watched by crowds from all over London, and only the terraces, the sphinxes and the great flights of steps remain, with the television transmitter of 1956 standing where the tower was. The park kept the rest: the dinosaurs, restored and protected at the highest historic grade, the maze replanted, the boating lake, the concert bowl, the National Sports Centre of 1964, and the view from the top terrace across south London to the North Downs. 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A family was released into Paradise Fields in Greenford in 2023 \u2014 the first in the capital \u2014 and has been rebuilding the place ever since: dams across the brook, new pools, drowned willow coming back as scrub. The evening safari is two hours with one of the project leads, part briefing and part standing very still at the water in the half-light.\n\nThey are wild animals and nobody promises you a sighting. Book ahead; sessions run several evenings a week from 7pm at around \u00a328, and are over-16s only. Wear muted colours and boots that survive wet ground, and skip the perfume \u2014 a beaver smells you long before it sees you. 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thousand acres of ancient wood running from Chingford up into Essex, bought for Londoners by the City in 1878 after the first great victory of the conservation movement: the Cockney Paradise.","note":"The forest has been wooded since the Stone Age and holds two Iron Age forts, Loughton Camp and Ambresbury Banks; Henry II made it a royal forest in the twelfth century, which meant that only the King could hunt its deer while the commoners kept their rights to graze cattle and lop the trees for firewood, and it is the centuries of lopping that made the pollarded beeches and hornbeams the forest is known for, trunks like fists with a crown of branches above head height. When the lords of the manors began enclosing it in the 1860s the loppers of Loughton fought back, the City of London Corporation went to court on the commoners' side and won, and the Epping Forest Act of 1878 gave the whole of it to the City to keep open for ever; Queen Victoria came in 1882 to declare it the people's forest. It is 2,400 hectares of wood, grassland, heath, bog and ponds on the ridge between the Lea and the Roding, still grazed by cattle in summer and still owned by the City. The London end is at Chingford, where Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge stands beside the visitor centre and the plain runs away north; the deepest wood, High Beach and Loughton Camp, is a few miles further up.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/epping-forest.jpg?v=03335b8e","thumb":"/img/epping-forest-480.jpg?v=7a7a0513","width":1024,"height":736,"alt":"The trail of the Centenary Walk in Epping Forest , south of High Beach, Essex - England. 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After the Second World War the park's superintendent George Thomson turned the plantation into a woodland garden, opened to the public in 1953: streams and three ponds, a bog garden, a heather garden, and the evergreen Kurume azaleas brought from Japan in the 1920s that the garden now holds as a national collection, flowering in a blaze of pinks and reds in the last week of April and the first of May. Camellias and magnolias come before them and rhododendrons after. 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The fast trains reach York, its walls and its minster, in two hours, which is a long day out but a good one. Closer in are the garden cities, Letchworth and Welwyn, and Hitchin for the lavender fields in July. Cubitt's station of 1852 is the plain one beside St Pancras's Gothic; the concourse roof of 2012 is the reason to look up.","note_links":[{"phrase":"Cambridge","href":"https://www.visitcambridge.org/"},{"phrase":"Ely","href":"https://www.visitely.org.uk/"},{"phrase":"York","href":"https://visityork.org/"},{"phrase":"Hitchin","href":"https://www.visitherts.co.uk/"}],"figure":{"src":"/img/kings-cross-station.jpg?v=6d606d6f","thumb":"/img/kings-cross-station-480.jpg?v=784a822f","width":1024,"height":771,"alt":"King's College Chapel's pinnacled west end and the long white classical range beside it, seen across a broad lawn from the Backs, with people on the path in front.","caption":"King's College from the Backs. 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Southend Victoria is an hour for the pier and the estuary. The Cambridge line stops at Audley End, for the house and Saffron Walden, and the Norwich trains reach the Broads in under two hours. Epping Forest, on the other hand, is the Central line from the platforms below.","note_links":[{"phrase":"Essex","href":"https://www.visitessex.com/"},{"phrase":"Constable","href":"https://dedhamvale-nl.org.uk/"},{"phrase":"Colchester","href":"https://www.visitcolchester.com/"},{"phrase":"Southend","href":"https://www.visitsouthend.co.uk/"},{"phrase":"Cambridge","href":"https://www.visitcambridge.org/"},{"phrase":"Broads","href":"https://www.visitthebroads.co.uk/"}],"figure":{"src":"/img/liverpool-street-station.jpg?v=7c12c4f9","thumb":"/img/liverpool-street-station-480.jpg?v=fa2b5dde","width":1024,"height":768,"alt":"Colchester Castle's great Norman keep of rubble and red Roman brick, with a flag flying, a wooden bridge to its door and flower beds in the park in front.","caption":"Colchester Castle, the oldest recorded town in Britain. 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The Kent lines run through Sevenoaks, for Knole's deer park, to Tunbridge Wells and the villages of the Weald, and on to Hastings, its old town and the net huts on its beach. 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The tide does most of the work and the guides plan around it, which is the whole reason to go with them rather than alone. 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They run from a converted barge; the canoes really are cow-print.","note_links":null,"also_in":[{"name":"What\u2019s On","href":"/whats-on/moo-canoes/"}],"maps_q":"Moo Canoes, The Milk Float, Sweetwater Moorings, White Post Lane, E9 5EN, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"CRATE Brewery","s":"crate-brewery","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":3},{"n":"Howling Hops Tank Bar","s":"howling-hops-tank-bar","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":46},{"n":"The Yard Theatre","s":"the-yard-theatre","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":47}],"near_same":[{"s":"queen-elizabeth-olympic-park","m":525},{"s":"victoria-park","m":961},{"s":"tower-hamlets-cemetery-park","m":2187},{"s":"london-fields-lido","m":2682},{"s":"goboat-canary-wharf","m":4318},{"s":"abney-park","m":4492}]},{"slug":"morden-hall-park","name":"Morden Hall Park","maps_name":null,"area":"Morden","address":"Morden Hall Road, SM4 5JD","station":"Morden","walk":3,"lat":51.403694,"lng":-0.186702,"geo":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-0.19144,51.40377],[-0.19216,51.40844],[-0.18118,51.40245],[-0.18122,51.4003],[-0.18329,51.40062],[-0.18413,51.3989],[-0.18547,51.40097],[-0.18628,51.40138],[-0.186,51.40318],[-0.18809,51.40277],[-0.18899,51.40287],[-0.1894,51.40398],[-0.19144,51.40377]]]},"hours":[[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24]],"hours_raw":"24/7","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/morden-hall-park","hours_short":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","hours_extra":null,"runs":null,"website":"https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/morden-hall-park","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/5268462","types":["free","garden","park","wildlife"],"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"verdict":"A country estate on the Wandle at the bottom of the Northern line: the snuff mills that paid for it, a rose garden, wetland boardwalks and 125 acres of National Trust park, free.","note":"The land was Westminster Abbey's until the Dissolution and the Garth family's for generations after; the Hall went up in the 1770s, and in the 1870s the estate was bought by Gilliat Hatfeild, a tobacco merchant, whose two watermills on the Wandle ground the tobacco into snuff. His son lived quietly in Morden Cottage, kept the park as it was, and left the core of the estate to the National Trust when he died in 1941. The river splits into channels through the park and is crossed by footbridge after footbridge; the snuff mills stand by the main entrance with the Trust's caf\u00e9 beside them, the rose garden of the 1920s holds some forty-five varieties on two and a half acres, a boardwalk runs out through the wetland, and the western part is the Trust's only garden centre. 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Buildings enclose it on all four sides, which shelters it enough that London planes grow here alongside Canary Island date palms and an Australian mimosa that flowers in February. The benches are its other distinction: most carry plaques put up by Americans who spent time in Mayfair and wanted to be remembered on the spot, and there are enough of them to sit down whatever the hour. The Jesuit church of the Immaculate Conception opens onto one end and the Grosvenor Chapel onto the other.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/mount-street-gardens.jpg?v=e320efe9","thumb":"/img/mount-street-gardens-480.jpg?v=05575f17","width":1024,"height":682,"thumb_width":480,"alt":"Plane trees and benches in Mount Street Gardens, mansion blocks behind","caption":"Benches under the planes.","credit":"Photo by Anthony O'Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons","credit_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_Mount_Street_Gardens_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7148211.jpg"},"maps_q":"Mount Street Gardens, Mayfair, W1K 2TH, London","in_area":{"slug":"mayfair","name":"Mayfair"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Connaught Bar","s":"connaught-bar","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":98},{"n":"Coburg Bar","s":"coburg-bar","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":98},{"n":"Mount Street","s":"mount-street","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":111}],"near_same":[{"s":"grosvenor-square","m":256},{"s":"hyde-park","m":971},{"s":"boating-on-the-serpentine","m":1082},{"s":"serpentine-lido","m":1345},{"s":"st-jamess-park-and-green-park","m":1363},{"s":"goboat-paddington","m":1898}]},{"slug":"mudchute-park-and-farm","name":"Mudchute Park and Farm","maps_name":null,"area":"Isle of Dogs","address":"Pier Street, E14 3HP","station":"Mudchute","walk":5,"lat":51.491556,"lng":-0.00931,"geo":null,"hours":[[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 09:00-16:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.mudchute.org/plan-your-visit/opening-times","hours_short":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","hours_extra":"Those are the farm hours; the park is open dawn to dusk.","runs":null,"website":"https://www.mudchute.org/","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/762162028","types":["free","park"],"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"verdict":"Thirty-two acres of farm on the spoil of Millwall Dock, sheep grazing under the towers of Canary Wharf, free every day.","note":"When Millwall Dock was dug in the 1860s the mud dredged from it was pumped across East Ferry Road and dumped on the fields beyond, a pneumatic system of the dock engineer's own design that stank so badly Poplar's council fought it for years, and the mud shoot gave the ground its name. It lay wild for a century, then in 1974 the Greater London Council marked it for a high-rise estate and the Island rose against the plan; the campaign won, the Mudchute Association was formed in 1977 and the farm followed. It is the largest urban farm in Europe by its own borough's reckoning: more than a hundred animals, rare-breed sheep, pigs, cattle and llamas on the grass, the concrete of a wartime anti-aircraft battery still on the hill, and Canary Wharf filling the sky behind the paddocks.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/mudchute-park-and-farm.jpg?v=bac2a58c","thumb":"/img/mudchute-park-and-farm-480.jpg?v=388a0987","width":1024,"height":607,"alt":"Paddock, Mudchute Farm, Cubitt Town, London, E14","caption":"","credit":"Photo by David Hallam-Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons","credit_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paddock,_Mudchute_Farm,_Cubitt_Town,_London,_E14_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4897197.jpg","thumb_width":480},"maps_q":"Mudchute Park and Farm, Pier Street, E14 3HP, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Cutty Sark Museum","s":"cutty-sark-museum","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":968},{"n":"Old Royal Naval College","s":"old-royal-naval-college","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":1061},{"n":"Greenwich Market","s":"greenwich-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":1112}],"near_same":[{"s":"goboat-canary-wharf","m":1446},{"s":"london-kayak-company","m":1778},{"s":"greenwich-park","m":1871},{"s":"tower-hamlets-cemetery-park","m":3728},{"s":"southwark-park","m":4030},{"s":"charlton-lido","m":4276}]},{"slug":"myddelton-house-gardens","name":"Myddelton House Gardens","maps_name":null,"area":"Enfield","address":"Bulls Cross, Enfield, EN2 9HG","station":"Turkey Street","walk":12,"lat":51.675004,"lng":-0.061066,"geo":null,"hours":[[10.0,16.0],[10.0,16.0],[10.0,16.0],[10.0,16.0],[10.0,16.0],[10.0,16.0],[10.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 10:00-16:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/myddelton-house-gardens","hours_short":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","hours_extra":null,"runs":null,"website":"https://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/myddelton-house-gardens","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/158347155","types":["free","garden"],"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"verdict":"The garden that E. A. Bowles, the Crocus King, made over fifty years at Enfield: a bed of lunatic plants, Enfield's old market cross and a Regency house on the New River, free.","note":"Henry Carrington Bowles built the house in 1818 on part of the Forty Hall estate and named it for Hugh Myddelton, whose New River of 1613 ran through the grounds bringing London its drinking water. His descendant Edward Augustus Bowles inherited it in the 1890s and, self-taught, became one of the great gardeners of his century, the author of My Garden in Spring and its companions and the country's authority on crocuses, and from then until his death in 1954 he made the eight acres his laboratory. The Lunatic Asylum bed holds the contorted and the corkscrewed, plants he collected for their oddness; the market cross in the rose garden is Enfield's own, bought when the town replaced it; there is a Tulip Terrace, a kitchen garden, a rock garden being restored and a Victorian glasshouse in four climates. 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Fifty-two acres, mostly reclaimed by ash and sycamore, with an Anglican chapel left as a roofless ruin and a clearing near the top that frames St Paul's dead centre between the trees. 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The General Post Office's headquarters stood next door, and the sorters and postmen who took their breaks here gave it the name. Along the north wall, under a wooden loggia, is the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice that the painter G.F. Watts proposed for Victoria's jubilee and finally built in 1900: ceramic tablets to ordinary people who died saving others, a pantomime girl who went back into a burning theatre, a boy who drowned rescuing a friend, a railway labourer, a doctor. Fifty-four are there of the hundred and twenty he planned, and the newest, for a man who died in 2007, was the first in seventy-eight years. 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Sixty-three acres between Bermondsey and Rotherhithe: a boating lake that runs in summer, a bandstand that still gets used, an athletics track, and the Ada Salter garden \u2014 a semi-circular herbaceous border laid out in 1936 and named for the councillor who spent her life planting this part of London.\n\nSouthwark Park Galleries sits inside the park showing contemporary art, free, and is the reason to come on a grey day. By the Jamaica Gate stand four caryatids from Rotherhithe's old town hall of 1897 \u2014 salvaged, parked on the Heygate Estate for years, and finally set down here in 2011.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/southwark-park.jpg?v=0a37f862","thumb":"/img/southwark-park-480.jpg?v=54587dcc","width":1024,"height":768,"alt":"Multi-use green next to running track","caption":"","credit":"Photo by Augustine Lim, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","credit_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southwark_Park_Sporting_Green.JPG","thumb_width":480},"whats_on":[{"slug":"southwark-park-galleries","name":"Southwark Park Galleries","href":"/museums/southwark-park-galleries/","verdict":"Two free galleries in a park \u2014 one a purpose-built room by the lake, one a deconsecrated church.","runs":null,"types":["art"]}],"maps_q":"Southwark Park, Gomm Road, SE16 2ET, London","bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Southwark Park Galleries","s":"southwark-park-galleries","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":77},{"n":"The Snapery Bakery","s":"the-snapery-bakery","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":519},{"n":"Renforth Pump House","s":"renforth-pump-house","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":531}],"near_same":[{"s":"burgess-park","m":2138},{"s":"nunhead-cemetery","m":3584},{"s":"postmans-park","m":3866},{"s":"mudchute-park-and-farm","m":4030},{"s":"london-kayak-company","m":4061},{"s":"greenwich-park","m":4305}]},{"slug":"st-jamess-park-and-green-park","name":"St James's Park and Green Park","maps_name":null,"area":"St James's","address":"St James's Park and Green Park, SW1A 2BJ","station":"Green Park","walk":1,"lat":51.502717,"lng":-0.133682,"geo":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-0.1379,51.50268],[-0.13063,51.50568],[-0.12955,51.50514],[-0.12914,51.50371],[-0.13,51.50138],[-0.13895,51.50056],[-0.1397,51.50122],[-0.13932,51.50211],[-0.1379,51.50268]]],[[[-0.13914,51.50316],[-0.14234,51.50677],[-0.14955,51.50314],[-0.14961,51.50269],[-0.14143,51.50228],[-0.14074,51.50268],[-0.13959,51.50239],[-0.13873,51.50274],[-0.13914,51.50316]]]]},"hours":[[5.0,24.0],[5.0,24.0],[5.0,24.0],[5.0,24.0],[5.0,24.0],[5.0,24.0],[5.0,24.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 05:00-24:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.royalparks.org.uk/visit/parks/st-jamess-park","hours_short":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-04","hours_extra":null,"runs":null,"website":"https://www.royalparks.org.uk/visit/parks/st-jamess-park","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":["way/374960368","way/863554956"],"types":["free","park","view","wildlife"],"scope":null,"scope_icon":null,"route":null,"verdict":"The best view in London from a footbridge, and a colony of pelicans that predates every building in it.","note":"Two parks either side of The Mall, and the pair works as one walk. St James's has the lake, and the Blue Bridge across it gives the two views everyone comes for: Buckingham Palace at one end, and at the other the roofs and turrets of Whitehall stacked up behind the water in a way that looks nothing like England. Go at dusk. Green Park, on the other side, is the plain half \u2014 no lake, no flowerbeds, just plane trees, deckchairs and grass \u2014 and it is the better one to lie down in.\n\nPelicans have lived on the lake since 1664, when the Russian ambassador gave a pair to Charles II, and around forty have followed them. They are fed fish daily at about half past two near Duck Island Cottage, which is worth timing a walk around: they are large, entirely unbothered by people, and given to sitting on benches. In 2026 chicks hatched here for the first time in over 360 years.\n\nIt is the most walked-through park in London and the stretch between the palace and Horse Guards is busy most of the year. 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From the other side of the station Thameslink runs south to the Downs and Brighton and north to St Albans, and the East Midlands trains reach the edge of the Peak District in two hours. 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Chalet Wood is a sheet of bluebells in late April, and herons nest on the islands of the Heronry Pond.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/wanstead-park.jpg?v=dc7ad627","thumb":"/img/wanstead-park-480.jpg?v=0fd81e55","width":1024,"height":576,"alt":"The Temple, Wanstead Park, London in April 2024","caption":"","credit":"Photo by The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","credit_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Temple,_Wanstead_Park,_April_2024.jpg","thumb_width":480},"maps_q":"Wanstead Park, Warren Road, E11 2LT, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Valentines Mansion","s":"valentines-mansion","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":1748},{"n":"Pretty Decent Beer Co","s":"pretty-decent-beer-co","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":2102},{"n":"Perky Blenders","s":"perky-blenders-little-ilford","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":2132}],"near_same":[{"s":"queen-elizabeth-olympic-park","m":4759},{"s":"moo-canoes","m":5274},{"s":"victoria-park","m":6229},{"s":"walthamstow-wetlands","m":6828},{"s":"tower-hamlets-cemetery-park","m":6895},{"s":"epping-forest","m":7627}]},{"slug":"waterloo-station","name":"Waterloo: Surrey, Hampshire and the New Forest by train","maps_name":"Waterloo station","area":"Waterloo","address":"Waterloo Road, SE1 8SW","station":"London Waterloo","walk":1,"lat":51.502838,"lng":-0.112801,"geo":null,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":"https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/london-waterloo/","hours_short":"Trains from early morning until after midnight","hours_checked":"2026-09-08","hours_extra":null,"runs":null,"website":"https://www.visitsurrey.com/","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/3638795617","types":["countryside","seaside"],"scope":"Day trips by train","scope_icon":"train","route":null,"verdict":"Box Hill in fifty minutes, Windsor and Hampton Court in less, the New Forest in an hour and a half, and the sea beyond.","note":"The busiest station in Britain sends its trains into the best day-trip country London has: Hampton Court in half an hour, Windsor along the river, Box Hill and the Surrey Hills for the North Downs, Guildford for the Wey, and on to Winchester's cathedral in an hour, the New Forest's ponies and heath at Brockenhurst in an hour and a half, and Salisbury for Stonehenge. Further still are Portsmouth for the ferry to the Isle of Wight and the Dorset coast at Weymouth. 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The Greek Orthodox enclosure near the top holds nineteen historically protected mausolea built for the Anglo-Greek merchant families of the nineteenth century, and is generally reckoned the best of its kind outside Greece. 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He built the bridge over the road to the river lawn, the sunken garden behind the house and a Japanese garden, and in the riverside garden he set up the Naked Ladies: eight nymphs and a pair of horses in white Carrara marble, bought from the sale of a fraudster's estate and rising out of a cascade with their arms in the air. 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