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Crystal Palace Park

Victorian 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.

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Crystal Palace Park, park in London
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Did you know

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins completed 33 life-size models of extinct animals around the lake in 1854, and the park is Grade II* listed.

Local tip

The dinosaurs are by the lakes in the south of the park near the Penge entrance, on an unpaved path that can be muddy in wet weather, and the Grade I listed models must not be climbed. Gates open at 7.30am on weekdays and 9am at weekends, closing about half an hour after dusk.

Finding it

Address
London SE19 2GA
Nearest station
Crystal Palace (Overground), 369 m away

Details change, so check with the place before you set off.

More places nearby

  • Crystal Palace DinosaursLandmark · 450 m awayThe world's first dinosaur sculptures, unveiled in 1854 and now Grade I listed, standing on islands by the lake in Crystal Palace Park.
  • Crystal Palace MuseumMuseum · 500 m awayA small volunteer-run museum in the park's surviving Victorian engineering-school building, telling the story of the giant glass Crystal Palace that stood here until it burned down in 1936.
  • West Norwood CemeteryHidden gem · 2.3 km awayOne of London's 'Magnificent Seven' Victorian cemeteries, with a Greek Orthodox necropolis and dozens of listed monuments among the hillside mausolea.
  • Horniman Museum and GardensMuseum · 2.4 km awayA free South London museum of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments set within 16 acres of gardens, opened in 1901 as a gift to the public by tea trader Frederick John Horniman.

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