Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Paddington Recreation Ground. Paddington Recreation Ground is a park in Maida Vale, City of Westminster, just north of Paddington. Its 27-acre site is the largest area of parkland located entirely within the City of Westminster. [1] It was the first park of its kind in London, having operated since 1888. [2]
In addition to these spaces, a large number of council-owned parks were developed between the mid 19th century and the Second World War. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Victoria Park 86.18 ha (213 acres), [13] London Borough of Wandsworth. Battersea Park 83 ha (205 acres). [14] London Borough of Lewisham. Beckenham Place Park 96 hectares
St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster, central London.A Royal Park, it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less, now the site of St James's Palace.
The park is in the middle of a near-continuous chain of green spaces in Westminster that includes St James's Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens. To the northwest of Green Park is the district of St James's including, Lancaster House , Clarence House , and St James's Palace .
Kilburn Wells, near Paddington.—The waters are now in the utmost perfection; the gardens enlarged and greatly improved; the house and offices re-painted and beautified in the most elegant manner. The whole is now open for the reception of the public, the great room being particularly adapted to the use and amusement of the politest companies.
In 1915, the Bakerloo Line was extended to Queen's Park station, [18] the nearby Kensal Green station appearing in 1916. Both stations offer easy access to Paddington, Charing Cross and Waterloo mainline stations [20] In 1917, Queens Park Rangers moved away from the area to the Loftus Road stadium in nearby Shepherd's Bush.
Five of these parks – The Regent’s Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, and St James's Park – are situated in central London. The parks are owned by the Crown, with responsibility for them resting with the Secretary of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Royal Parks charity manages the parks ...
There is a fictional underground Paddington station on the North London System in the novel The Horn of Mortal Danger (1980). [112] Paddington station was the subject of William Powell Frith's 1862 painting The Railway Station. The portrait was viewed by over 21,000 people (paying a shilling each) in the first seven weeks of its being publicly ...