Green Park

Green Park (officially The Green Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. Covering an area of about 53 acres (21 hectares), it lies between London's Hyde Park and St. James's Park. Together with Kensington Gardens and the gardens of Buckingham Palace, these parks form an almost unbroken stretch of open land reaching from Whitehall and Victoria station to Kensington and Notting Hill.

By contrast with its neighbours, Green Park has no lakes nor any statues or fountains (except for "Canada Memorial" by Pierre Granche), but consists entirely of wooded meadows. The park is bounded on the south by Constitution Hill, on the east by the pedestrian Queen's Walk, and on the north by Piccadilly. It meets St. James's Park at Queen's Gardens with the Victoria Memorial at its centre, opposite the entrance to Buckingham Palace. To the south is the ceremonial avenue of The Mall, and the buildings of St James's Palace and Clarence House overlook the park to the east. Green Park tube station is a major interchange located on Piccadilly, Victoria and Jubilee lines near the north end of Queen's Walk.

History

. ["London: what to see, and how to see it", p. 61. H.G. Clarke, 1862.]

Trivia

There are Government offices and corridors, linking the nearby Royal Palaces, beneath the East side of Green Park and continue to run to the South. These are clearly visible on the edges of Green Park and St. James Park, with the glass roofs just below ground level.The rooms are thought to be conversions of some of the tunnels built as part of the Cabinet War Rooms from the Second World War.

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External links

* [http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/parks/green_park/ Royal Parks website: Green Park]