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  • Battersea ParkA Victorian riverside park with a boating lake, a bandstand, a children's zoo and a Japanese Peace Pagoda, laid out by Sir James Pennethorne.
  • Beckenham Place ParkLewisham's largest green space, 96 hectares of woodland and meadow around a Palladian mansion that is now a cafe and community centre.
  • Brent Reservoir (Welsh Harp)A roughly 170-acre reservoir, marsh and woodland nature reserve on the Brent and Barnet border, valued as a breeding site for waterbirds.
  • Brockwell ParkA hilltop south London park with a Grade II* listed mansion, an old English walled flower garden, ponds and ancient oaks, plus wide open meadows.
  • Bunhill FieldsA dissenters' burial ground where William Blake, John Bunyan, and Daniel Defoe are buried, now a shaded public garden in the City.
  • Burgess ParkSouthwark's largest park, 56 hectares carved out of a densely built-up area, lying between Walworth, Bermondsey and Peckham.
  • Bushy ParkA 1,100-acre former Tudor hunting park beside Hampton Court, with roaming red and fallow deer, a Wren-designed avenue and fountain, and the Woodland Gardens.
  • Camley Street Natural ParkA tiny wildlife reserve squeezed between King's Cross and St Pancras on the Regent's Canal, with ponds, wildflower meadow and a small cafe.
  • Chelsea Physic GardenA walled botanical garden founded in 1673 by the Society of Apothecaries to grow medicinal plants, now England's second-oldest botanic garden and home to Britain's largest outdoor fruiting olive tree.
  • Clapham CommonA 220-acre south London common with a large Victorian bandstand, several ponds and wide open lawns, straddling the Lambeth and Wandsworth boroughs.
  • Clissold ParkA leafy Stoke Newington park with a Grade II listed house-cafe, two lakes, animal enclosures and a stretch of the New River running through it.
  • Crystal Palace ParkVictorian pleasure grounds in south-east London with Italian terraces flanked by sphinxes, a free hedge maze, a boating lake and life-size Victorian dinosaur sculptures.
  • Eltham Palace GardensThe 19 acres of gardens surrounding Eltham Palace, combining the moat and medieval remains of Henry VIII's childhood home with the 1930s landscaping added by the Courtauld family.
  • Gasholder ParkA circular lawn set inside the restored guide frame of a Grade II listed Victorian gasholder beside Regent's Canal, ringed by a mirror-polished steel canopy.
  • Golders Hill ParkA 16-hectare part of Hampstead Heath with a walled garden, water gardens, a bandstand and a free mini zoo of deer, wallabies and lemurs.
  • Hackney MarshesA huge area of protected common land beside the River Lea, best known for its 88 full-size Sunday league football pitches.
  • Hampstead Heath800 acres of ancient wild parkland with swimming ponds, woods, and meadows, feeling far larger than its distance from central London suggests.
  • Hyde ParkA 350-acre royal park in central London with the Serpentine lake, Speakers' Corner, and open lawns bordering Kensington Gardens.
  • Kensington GardensA 265-acre royal park adjoining Hyde Park, home to Kensington Palace, the Diana Memorial Playground, and the Italian Gardens.
  • Kyoto Garden, Holland ParkA Japanese garden with a waterfall and koi pond, gifted to Holland Park by the Chamber of Commerce of Kyoto in 1991.
  • Mile End ParkA 32-hectare linear park beside the Regent's Canal, with a green bridge over Mile End Road, an ecology park with a lake and a climbing wall, and sports and arts areas.
  • Morden Hall ParkA 125-acre National Trust park, a former deer park and snuff-mill estate on the River Wandle, with meadows, wetlands, a rose garden and two restored watermills.
  • Parkland WalkA traffic-free path along a disused Victorian railway line from Finsbury Park through Crouch End and Highgate, run as a local nature reserve.
  • Peckham Rye ParkA Victorian park south of Peckham with a Japanese garden, stretches of the old River Peck and a weekly parkrun.
  • Primrose HillA grassy hill on the north edge of Regent's Park with an open, uninterrupted skyline view that locals guard as a quiet favourite.
  • Queen's WoodA 52-acre ancient oak-and-hornbeam woodland between Highgate and Muswell Hill, next to Highgate Wood, with a community cafe in a converted woodkeeper's lodge.
  • Regent's ParkA 410-acre royal park in north London holding London Zoo, an open-air theatre, and Queen Mary's Gardens, the city's largest collection of roses.
  • Richmond ParkLondon's largest Royal Park: more than 2,000 acres of grassland and ancient woodland where herds of red and fallow deer roam, with ridge-top views towards St Paul's from King Henry's Mound.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, KewA vast World Heritage botanic garden of Victorian glasshouses, a tree-canopy walkway and endless lawns beside the Thames. It easily fills a whole day.
  • Ruislip LidoA woodland reservoir in outer west London with a sandy beach, a miniature railway, play areas, a pub and cafe, and Ruislip Woods on the doorstep.
  • St James's ParkThe oldest royal park in London, a 58-acre garden between Buckingham Palace and Whitehall with a lake known for its pelicans.
  • Sue Godfrey Nature ParkA small community-run nature reserve in Deptford on the site of a former pottery works, created in 1984 after local campaigning and renamed in 1994 for environmental campaigner Sue Godfrey.
  • Thames Barrier ParkA 7-hectare postmodern riverside park in Silvertown beside the Thames Barrier, with dancing water fountains and adventurous planting.
  • Trent ParkA 320-hectare country park on the Enfield edge of London, with woodland, ornamental lakes and a medieval moated site around a mansion rebuilt for Sir Philip Sassoon, which now holds a wartime spy museum.
  • Victoria ParkEast London's big Victorian people's park, with boating lakes, a Chinese pagoda, the Burdett-Coutts fountain and canal-side paths, all busy with joggers, skaters and picnickers.
  • Walthamstow WetlandsA Thames Water reservoir complex built between 1853 and 1904 and opened to the public in 2017, with bird hides, a visitor centre and a cafe in the restored Marine Engine House.
  • Waterlow ParkA hillside park in Highgate with three spring-fed ponds, Lauderdale House (a house dating to around 1580, now a cafe and arts venue) and wide views over the City skyline.
  • Wimbledon CommonA huge area of heath, woodland and ponds in south-west London, with a historic windmill, an Iron Age hill fort and the largest expanse of heathland in London.
  • WWT London Wetland CentreA 100-acre nature reserve in Barnes built on four disused Victorian reservoirs, with observation hides, wetland habitats, water birds and Asian short-clawed otters.

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