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Green Park
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Green Park is one of the several Royal Parks that form an unbroken stretch of land and foliage from Whitehall to Notting Hill. Visitors of Green Park must make it a point to go through the seven-mile walkway made in honor of the late Lady Diana, Princess of Wales on the 3rd anniversary of her death. The path, marked with seventy plaques, snakes through several Royal Parks and passes through Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace, St. James’s Palace, Clarence House and the Spencer House. Once upon a time, Green Park was a swamp and the burial grounds of lepers from the Saint James’s hospital. It was enclosed in the 16th century by King Henry VIII and became a park in 1668 when Charles II was the reigning monarch. Prior to being called Green Park in 1746, this area was more known as Upper St. James’s Park. The 53 acre garden is located between Hyde Park and St. James’s Park. Unlike the other Royal Parks, Green Park is almost devoid of lakes and statues or fountains, though this was not always so. In the 1700s, Green Park housed the Tyburn Pool, a reservoir called the Queen’s Basin, a Ranger’s Lodge and two temples namely the Temple of Peace and the Temple of Concord. Today, the only man-made monument found in Green Park is Pierre Granche’s Canada Memorial. Green Park is bounded by Constitution Hill on the South, Queen’s Walk to the east, and Piccadilly to the north. Opposite the entrance of Buckingham Palace is the Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens, the place where The Green Park merges with St. James’s Park. The park can be reached by bus or by tube. It is not advisable to go to Green Park by private car, as there is no provision for public parking. Introduction
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Ashlee House, 261-265 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8QT, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7833 9400 Fax: +44 (0)20 7833 9677
