London SPOTLIGHT

This issue, our Londonphile’s travels take him to five parks and gardens where you can escape the hustle and bustle to relax and enjoy summertime in the city

Britain has one of the greenest capital cities in the world (and officially the greenest in Europe), with over 3,000 parks and gardens spread throughout Greater London. Its largest is Richmond, one of the capital’s eight Royal Parks, located on the city’s southwestern outskirts. At 2,500 acres, it is three times the size of New York’s Central Park and home to over 630 red and fallow deer who have been roaming freely there since 1637. London has green spaces of all shapes and sizes, though. Here are a handful of my personal favourites, including a couple of lesser-known ones that even some Londoners might never have visited. Hampstead Heath One of London’s favourite green spaces, ‘The Heath’ lies adjacent to one of the capital’s smartest residential neighbourhoods, that’s long been popular with…

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Discover Britain (Digital) - 1 Issue, June - July 2024

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