Famous Royal Parks of London
When you are on the tour of England and eventually are at London and looking out for places that you should visit on the tour of city, then you come across number of places and spots for your leisure and enjoyment. However among all the places and spots the Royal Parks of London are places that you should always look at as a great opportunity to learn about the traditional British horticulture as well as common and rare flora found in the England. The Royal Parks of London are controlled by the monarchy of England for the recreational activities of the Royal family. And public does not have legal right to use works and depends upon the mercy of Crown to use those parks. The Royal Parks Agency manages the Royal Parks under powers derived from s22 Crown Lands Act 1851.
Though with urbanization of London, these parks were preserved as and made freely accessible to become public parks. There are total eight parks over there in Greater London within jurisdiction of Royal Park and covers around 2,000 hectares of land in London.
• Bushy Park: It is home for freely roaming deer and has a mile long chestnuts avenue. The park also has an artificial river and large selection of sporting facilities.
• The Green Park: It is situated between Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly and is great place to sit and soak up the sun. It is such a nice place with for sunbathing and picnics in the summer months.
• Greenwich Park: It is a world heritage site and contains several historic buildings like Royal Observatory, Old Royal Naval College, National Maritime Museum and the Queen’s House.
• Hyde Park: It is located at the middle of London and houses Serpentine and Rotten Row, a renowned riding track and the first artificially lit road in England. And with the Serpentine Gallery, the Diana Memorial Fountain and open-air events are located here.
• Kensington Gardens: Kensington is in closer to Hyde Park at the end of the Serpentine. The features of this park are the Italian Fountain Gardens and the imposing Albert Memorial. The park too is living place to Kensington Palace with its peaceful Italian Gardens.
• The Regent’s Park: This park include an Open Air Theatre, a stunning rose garden, a boating lake (complete with islands), children’s playgrounds and a selection of cafés and restaurants, and the extensive London Zoo.
• Richmond Park: Spread around in the vast span of nearly 2,000 acres this includes diverse landscape with many walking trails through woods, parkland and riverside paths.
• St James’s Park: This park present’s a very attractive picnic spot on a royal itinerary and it’s lovely to hire a deckchair in summer and listen to the music in the bandstand.