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Green Park
Alex.B/ Saül G.
Green Park
Green Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. Covering 19 hectares, it lies between London’s Hyde Park and Sant James’s Park. Together with Kensington Gardens and the gardens of Buckingham Palace, these parks form an almost unbroken stretch of open land reaching from Whitehall and Victoria station and Notting Hill.
Green Park hasn’t lakes, no buildings and few monuments, having only the Canada Memorial and the Constance Fund Fountain. The park consists entirely of wooded meadows. The park is said to have originally been a swampy burial ground for lepers from the nearby hospital at St. James’s. It was first enclosed in the 16th century by Henry VIII.
In 1668 Charles II made the bulk of the land into a Royal Park. He laid out the park’s main walks and buiding an icehouse there to supply him with ice for cooling drinks in summer. At the time, the park was on the outskirts of London and remained an isolated area well into the 18th century, when it was known as a haunt of highwaymen and thieves.
It was a popular place for ballooming attempts and public firework displays during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are Government offices and corridors, linking the nearby Royal palaces, beneath the east side of Green Park and continue to run ti the south.
These are clearly visible on the edges of Green Park and St.James’s Park, with the glass roofs just below ground level. The rooms are thought to be conversions of some of the tunnels built as part of the Cabinet War Rooms from the Second Worl War.
Green Park
Green Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. Covering 19 hectares, it lies between London’s Hyde Park and Sant James’s Park. Together with Kensington Gardens and the gardens of Buckingham Palace, these parks form an almost unbroken stretch of open land reaching from Whitehall and Victoria station and Notting Hill.
Green Park hasn’t lakes, no buildings and few monuments, having only the Canada Memorial and the Constance Fund Fountain. The park consists entirely of wooded meadows. The park is said to have originally been a swampy burial ground for lepers from the nearby hospital at St. James’s. It was first enclosed in the 16th century by Henry VIII.
In 1668 Charles II made the bulk of the land into a Royal Park. He laid out the park’s main walks and buiding an icehouse there to supply him with ice for cooling drinks in summer. At the time, the park was on the outskirts of London and remained an isolated area well into the 18th century, when it was known as a haunt of highwaymen and thieves.
It was a popular place for ballooming attempts and public firework displays during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are Government offices and corridors, linking the nearby Royal palaces, beneath the east side of Green Park and continue to run ti the south.
These are clearly visible on the edges of Green Park and St.James’s Park, with the glass roofs just below ground level. The rooms are thought to be conversions of some of the tunnels built as part of the Cabinet War Rooms from the Second Worl War.
St. James's Park
Saül G./ Alex B.
St. James’s Park
James Park is an area of 23 hectares in the area of Westminster, central London and it is the oldest of the Royal Parks of the city. It is located at the southern end of the St.James’s. The park has a small lake, St. James’s Park Lake, with two islands, Puck island and west island. A bridge across the lake offers a magnificest view to the west of Buckingham palace framed by trees anb fountains.
In 1532, Henry VIII bought the swampy marsh area. This land bordered on the west by The Palace of York, recently bought by Henry Cardinal Wolsey, was purchased to make the palace of York in a situable residence for the king, when the throne in 1603, he ordered to drain the park, to be landscaped, and be nome to several exotic animals.
During the exile of Kings Charles II in France during the Commonwealth of England, the young king was very impressed by the elaborate gardens of French royal palaces, and after his return from France ordered to give the park a more formal look. This work was probably commissioned to the French.
The 18th century saw many changes, including the claim of the channel by the Horse Guards Parade and the acquisition in 1761 of Buckingham House by the royal family.
St. James’s Park
James Park is an area of 23 hectares in the area of Westminster, central London and it is the oldest of the Royal Parks of the city. It is located at the southern end of the St.James’s. The park has a small lake, St. James’s Park Lake, with two islands, Puck island and west island. A bridge across the lake offers a magnificest view to the west of Buckingham palace framed by trees anb fountains.
In 1532, Henry VIII bought the swampy marsh area. This land bordered on the west by The Palace of York, recently bought by Henry Cardinal Wolsey, was purchased to make the palace of York in a situable residence for the king, when the throne in 1603, he ordered to drain the park, to be landscaped, and be nome to several exotic animals.
During the exile of Kings Charles II in France during the Commonwealth of England, the young king was very impressed by the elaborate gardens of French royal palaces, and after his return from France ordered to give the park a more formal look. This work was probably commissioned to the French.
The 18th century saw many changes, including the claim of the channel by the Horse Guards Parade and the acquisition in 1761 of Buckingham House by the royal family.
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