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This is now the large recreational park, Kensington Wama, or Kensington Gardens Reserve, [5] also referred to as Kensington Gardens, created around 1908–1909 [6] and occupying 40 acres (16 ha). [ 7 ]
View across The Long Water to Kensington Palace. Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London.The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in western central London known as the West End.
The plaque at the entrance of the gallery is inscribed with the names of trees found at Kensington Gardens and a quotation from the 18th-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson. [14] Diana was a patron of the Serpentine Gallery. [15] Trumpet (or the Tiffany Drinking Fountain) Junction of the Broad Walk and Mount Walk, Kensington Gardens
Kensington Park: Burnside: Pembroke School, renamed as Angove House: 1887 John Charles Marshall Taylor 1917 Mark Edward Ridgeway 1926 Girton Girls' School, now Pembroke School [6] Arthur's Seat: c. 1875: George Tinline, completed by Gavin Young: Summit Road: Crafers: Adel. Hills: destroyed by fire 1983: 1908 H. Teesdale Smith 1925 Arthur H ...
The Albert Memorial is a Gothic Revival ciborium in Kensington Gardens, London, designed and dedicated to the memory of Prince Albert of Great Britain.Located directly north of the Royal Albert Hall, it was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband, who died in 1861.
The southernmost War Memorial Shelter, 2016. The War Memorial Shelters are two Grade II listed commemorative shelters in Kensington Gardens, London, about 100m apart, and about 140m east of Kensington Palace, built in about 1919 by the Silver Thimble Fund, to commemorate the Great War, and the soldiers and sailors who fought.
The Long Water is a recreational lake in Kensington Gardens, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Caroline of Ansbach.The Long Water refers to the long and narrow western half of the lake that is known as the Serpentine.
Kensington Palace Gardens is an exclusive street in Kensington, west of central London, near Kensington Gardens and Kensington Palace.Entered through gates at either end and guarded by sentry boxes, it was the location of the London Cage, the British government MI19 centre used during the Second World War and the Cold War.