On the west side of Regent’s Park is one of its main features, the boating lake. It’s in a curving Y shape and has a number of islands that are ideal for its large waterfowl population.
If you walk along the west bank of the lake you’ll come to The Boathouse, a restaurant with a large outdoor terrace that’s open 9am-8pm in summer, 10am-4pm in winter and a place where you can rent out rowing boats. Prices are £6.30 adults and £4.25 children per person, per hour. Kids can get pedaloes for £3 for 20 minutes. Boats are rented from 10.30-5pm.
There are a lot of mature trees around the top part of the lake including willows and the shape of the lake and the way its been landscaped create’s quite a few secluded spots. Just on the edge of the park opposite the top of the lake is the London Central Mosque which was opened in 1978 and can hold up to 1,800 people, they certainly picked a nice part of London when they decided to build it.
The east side of Regents Park has lots of woodland and mature trees but the park’s also well known for its sports pitches and the area north of the lake is full of football, rugby,hockey and it’s used by local schools a lot during the week. The park is also the home of the London Softball League the UK’s largest, and they have 19 pitches marked out on weekday evenings in the summer.
There’s a new centre and restaurant called The Hub on the edge of the sports fields. It includes new changing facilities and a restaurant with a 360 degree view, the centre’s open 7 days a week from 9.00 – 18.30 and the restaurant all week from 10am-5pm.
Not far from the Hub is a tennis and golf practice centre and you can turn up and play for both or take lessons as coaching is available for both the tennis and golf.
With prime residential areas of London like Primrose Hill just on the edges of the park its no surprise its a really popular place for joggers and runners to do their stuff and on a sunny day its a great park to go round walking or running.
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