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2. Hyde Park, London - Wikipedia

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   Hyde Park. Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140 ha), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.

3. Speakers' Corner - Wikipedia

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   Speakers' Corner, April 1987. A Speakers' Corner is an area where free speech open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed. The original and best known is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Historically there were a number of other areas designated as Speakers' Corners in other parks in London, such as ...

4. The Crystal Palace - Wikipedia

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   The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m 2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.

5. The Serpentine - Wikipedia

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   10 years before 2012, 5 months after May 2012. Islands. 1. The Serpentine (also known as the Serpentine River) is a 40-acre (16 ha) recreational lake in Hyde Park, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Queen Caroline. Although it is common to refer to the entire body of water as the Serpentine, the name refers in the strict sense ...

6. The Royal Parks - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Parks make up land that was originally used for the recreation, mostly hunting, by the royal family. [1] They are part of the hereditary possessions of The Crown, now managed by The Royal Parks, [2] a charity which manages eight royal parks and certain other areas of parkland in London. The Royal Parks charity was created as a company ...

7. Wellington Arch - Wikipedia

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   Wellington Arch. The Wellington Arch, also known as the Constitution Arch or (originally) as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central London, between the corner where Hyde Park meets Green Park. The Arch stands on a large green-space traffic island with ...

8. List of concerts in Hyde Park - Wikipedia

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   2007 – Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel, The White Stripes, Kaiser Chiefs, Daft Punk, Faithless. 2008 – A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Eric Clapton, Jack Johnson, The Police, Morrissey, [4] and The Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute Concert. 2009 – Blur, The Counterfeit Stones and Florence + The Machine, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Neil Young.

9. List of public art in Hyde Park, London - Wikipedia

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   Detail of the Wellington Monument. This is a list of public art in Hyde Park, London.. A Royal Park since 1536, Hyde Park covers an area of over 350 acres. [1] Its present landscaping dates largely to the 18th century, when Queen Caroline introduced the Serpentine among other features, and to the 1820s, when Decimus Burton made improvements including the park's triumphal entrance at Wellington ...