Parks

London has a well deserved reputation for the number and quality of its parks particularly the ones in the centre of the city. New visitors will be pleasantly surprised that if they’ve spent the morning battling through the shops and crowds of Oxford Street, been on their feet visiting a major museum or attraction or just need a break from the hordes on the Underground, there’s more than likely a park or green space close by to where they are.

The Royal Parks such as St James’s, Green Park, Regent’s Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens are well maintained, varied and have a lot of uses and things taking place in them throughout the year. Many are former hunting estates of English monarchs and the open space has been preserved while the city has grown up around them. Ideal places to relax and people watch in the summer, enjoy the plants and flower beds in parks like St James’s or take in the changing colours and foliage as autumn arrives, click on the links below for descrpitions and reviews of some of London’s most popular parks or try the LondonWildWeb website to locate parks and open spaces in any part of London.

St James’s Park
Green Park
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens part 1
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens part 2
Regent’s Park part 1
Regent’s Park part 2
Hampstead Heath
Holland Park
Greenwich Park