Lincoln’s Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. It is thought to have been one of the inspirations of Central Park, New York. It was laid out in part by Inigo Jones from the early 17th century and opened to the public after its acquisition by London County Council in 1895.

It is today managed by the London Borough of Camden and forms part of the southern boundary of that borough with the City of Westminster.

It takes its name from the adjacent Lincoln’s Inn, but should not be confused with the private gardens of Lincoln’s Inn itself. Lincoln’s Inn is separated from Lincoln’s Inn Fields by a perimeter wall and a large gatehouse.

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Belair Park is located in West Dulwich part of the London Borough of Southwark, southeast London. Formerly the grounds belonged to Belair House, a country villa built in Adam style and now a Grade II listed building. There are two other Grade II listed structures within the park: the lodge and entrance gate and an old stable building.

The park is bordered by the South Circular Road and Gallery Road. It has recently been refurbished with the tennis courts being upgraded and a skate board facility built. London Borough of Southwark has further plans for the park to make it more widely accessible.
The lake is the only substantial stretch of the ancient River Effra remaining above ground.

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The origins of Ravenscourt Park lie in the medieval manor and estate of Palingswick (or Paddenswick) Manor, located on the site and first recorded in the 12th century.The historic name still exists today in the name of Paddenswick Road, which runs along the northeast boundary of the park.

In 1887, representatives of the Scott family sold the estate to a developer for building purposes, to be covered, as rumour had it, with working class dwellings.

Efforts were at once made to prevent the disaster, on the one hand by an attempt to repurchase the property by public subscription and on the other by an appeal for the necessary funds to the Metropolitan Board of Works.

Both these efforts failed and largely owing to the price demanded by the new freeholder, said to be well over £70,000, for his acquisition.

Fortunately, however, it happened that each of the ground-leases of the row of detached and semi-detached residences called Ravenscourt Park, extending southwards from No. 23 (then occupied by Mr Ebenezer Stanley Burchett, as owner of the unexpired term of the ground-lease) and including the late Mr. Frank Dethbridge’s picturesque house called “The Hermitage”, (also held on a ground-lease), contained a proviso giving the ground-tenants the right to forbid any building on the width of the park, opposite their frontages, extending almost halfway to the fine avenue of elms running north and south on the eastern side of the estate.

The new freeholder immediately took discreet steps to remove this obstacle to the complete building over of the property, by buying out, for small sums of cash down, the rights of prohibition attaching to the several ground-leases and in two or three cases ground-tenants were tempted into waiving their rights to block any building opposite their respective frontages, in return for a certain money payment.

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Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare (125.53 acres) park located in Herne Hill, bordered by Brixton Water Lane, Norwood Road, Tulse Hill (Road), and Dulwich Road in South London.

It is home to the Lambeth Country Show every July and an annual fireworks display around November 5.

The park also commands great views of the skyline of the The City and Central London. At the top of the hill within the park stands Brockwell Hall.

The Grade II* listed Brockwell Hall was originally built between 1811-1813 when the area was part of Surrey and was the country seat of glass merchant John Blades Esq.

The land and house were acquired by the London County Council (LCC) in March 1891 and opened to the public the following summer.

In 1901 the LCC acquired a further 43 acres (17 ha) of land north of the original park. In the 1920s, there were 13 cricket pitches in the park, which attracted crowds of up to 1,500. Brockwell Park was home to the Galton Institute.

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Hurlingham Park is a multi-use stadium in Fulham, London.

It is currently used mostly for rugby matches, football matches and athletics events and is the home of Hammersmith and Fulham Rugby Football Club.

It is best known as the location for Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch.

The venue opened in 1879, the same year as Fulham F.C. were established, who are thought to have played here when it was still a boy’s church side. It had a seated capacity of around 2,500 people until the stands were torn down in 200

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Bishops Park is a park in Fulham, south-west London. The park was opened by the London County Council in 1893, on land given by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It is listed Grade II on the register of parks and gardens of special historic interest maintained by English Heritage.

The park runs north of the River Thames from All Saints church by a broad tree-lined avenue, and an embankment path along the river, and ends at Bishop’s Park Road. It contains tennis courts and bowling greens, with another small park area fronting Fulham Palace Road. It is adjacent to Fulham Palace, and Fulham Football club.

A memorial to members of the International Brigade who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War is located within the park’s grounds.

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The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries’ Garden in London, in 1673. (The word ‘Physic’ here refers to the science of healing.) It is the second oldest botanical garden in Britain, after the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, which was founded in 1621.

Its rock garden is the oldest English garden devoted to alpine plants. The largest fruiting olive tree in Britain is there, protected by the garden’s heat-trapping high brick walls, along with what is doubtless the world’s northernmost grapefruit growing outdoors.

Jealously guarded during the tenure of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, in 1983 the Garden became a registered charity and was opened to the general public for the first time.

The garden is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.

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Holland Park is a district and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London.

Holland Park has a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area, known for attractive large Victorian townhouses, and high-class shopping and restaurants. There are many popular shopping destinations located around Holland Park such as High Street Kensington, Notting Hill, Holland Park Avenue, Portobello Market, Westbourne Grove, Clarendon Cross, and Ledbury Road.

Though there are no official boundaries, they are roughly Kensington High Street to the south, Holland Road to the west, Holland Park Avenue to the north and Kensington Church Street to the east. Holland Park Avenue is at the boundaries of four CAS wards: Norland, Holland, Pembridge, and Campden.

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The Grand Union Canal is part of the British canal system. Its main line connects London and Birmingham, stretching for 220 km (137 miles) with 166 locks.It has arms to places including Leicester, Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover and Northampton.

The Grand Union Canal was also the original name for part of what is now part of the Leicester Line of the modern Grand Union: this latter is now generally referred to as the Old Grand Union Canal where necessary to avoid ambiguity.

With competition from the railways having taken a large share of traffic in the second half of the 19th century, improvements in roads and vehicle technology in the early part of the 20th century meant that the lorry was also becoming a threat to the canals. Tolls had been reduced to compete with the railways, but there was little scope for further reduction. The Regent’s Canal and Grand Junction Canal agreed that amalgamation and modernisation were the only way to remain competitive.

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