Parks

Parks (public), The Parks And Open Spaces Of London are very extensive. The principal ones are :. St James's, close to Whitehall, one of the most interesting. The ornamental water is in cold seasons a favourite skating place, and leads us to Buckingham Palace, from thence a walk across the Green Park to Hyde Park Corner. Then into Hyde Park, which, with Kensington Gardens, covers 636 acres. This is one of the most appreciated parks in London, being throughout the London season thronged at particular periods of the day by the world of fashion and society either in the Long Drive or Rotten Row for Equestrians. Popular too Is the Serpentine for bathers, and skaters in the winter time. Kensington Gardens,' a continuance of Hyde Park, has Kensington Palace at the west end of it, and the gardens are very attractive and in some parts the trees very fine. Farther out are Kew Gardens and Richmond Park. In Nw. London is Regent's Park (470 acres) The Broad Walk is very popular, and the flower beds have a display in the Spring and Summer time scarcely bettered in London. The Zoological Gardens are at the Northern end of this Park, and beyond them is Primrose Hill. 205ft. in height and 50 acres in extent. Finsbury Park is a popular Open space in the North of London, and farther out Waterlow Park on Highgate Hill (the gift of Sir Sydney Waterlow) is very pretty and nicely undulated, Parliament Hill Fields, Fiampstead Heath and Highgate Woods. This does not exhaust by any means the list, as in S. London, Southwark Park (63 acres) Brockwell Park at Herne Hill, Tooting, Wandsworth, and Wimbledon Commons furnish splendid breathing places for the people. The S. w. of London has a beautiful park at Battersea (198 acres) laid out with trees, shrubs, and flowers, with a sub. tropical garden and ornamental water. The E. and N. e. Districts have Victoria Park (290 acres) for a pleasure ground, whilst farther out are Wanstead Flats and Park and Epping Forest.