| London Parks.... 14:47 - Oct 4 with 13039 views | Boston |
...got a favourite? People often ask me about things I like to do when back in town and the parks are something I always enjoy. Hard to pinpoint why exactly but appreciate the high level of maintenance and the general lay outs, Strangely, well I think it’s strange, my most pleasurable walks are in the colder months, particularly on the morning of a frost, Regents Park from south to north is a regular stroll, though love those smaller inner city spaces like Tavistock Square. Of course, Queens Park is rarely off my mind. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 14:52 - Oct 4 with 5141 views | stowmarketrange |
Richmond is my personal favourite,mainly because I spent every 6 weeks holiday in there from the age of about 9/10 until I discovered the demon drink a few years later.
Closely followed by Battersea Park because of the funfair. |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 14:59 - Oct 4 with 5119 views | RBlock |
Absolutely agree about walking in the colder months, when it's crisp and you've got a big coat on. When it's too hot everything is an effort and you're covered in sweat. |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:06 - Oct 4 with 5098 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Queens Park and Paddington Rec, purely for nostalgic reasons. |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:06 - Oct 4 with 5097 views | hubble |
Hampstead Heath for me (although posting this on a football forum, I realise that statement is prone to innuendo... oops...) if that counts as a London park. Amazing views and a real sense of being in the countryside, and easy to get to. But I also love Richmond Park (shame they stopped us picking mushrooms there though!), Regents Park, Hyde Park (which I've just come back from, visited the Serpentine Gallery as always - where else in the world can you do so much for free??), Green Park and of course my local, QP. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 15:09 - Oct 4 with 5091 views | MrSheen |
| London Parks.... on 14:59 - Oct 4 by RBlock |
Absolutely agree about walking in the colder months, when it's crisp and you've got a big coat on. When it's too hot everything is an effort and you're covered in sweat. |
Richmond Park is extraordinary. I've lived here over 25 years, and I'm still finding bits I haven't seen before.
I should add, I grew up a street away from Gladstone Park, which was a fantastic place (Goals with nets! Gaelic football, cricket and lacrosse to watch! Putting! Killer slopes to cycle down! A mysterious goods railway up the middle!) but I was too lazy as a kid to take proper advantage. [Post edited 4 Oct 2019 15:17]
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| London Parks.... on 15:12 - Oct 4 with 5075 views | Mick_S |
| London Parks.... on 15:06 - Oct 4 by hubble |
Hampstead Heath for me (although posting this on a football forum, I realise that statement is prone to innuendo... oops...) if that counts as a London park. Amazing views and a real sense of being in the countryside, and easy to get to. But I also love Richmond Park (shame they stopped us picking mushrooms there though!), Regents Park, Hyde Park (which I've just come back from, visited the Serpentine Gallery as always - where else in the world can you do so much for free??), Green Park and of course my local, QP. |
I used to pester my Dad to take me over Queens Park when I was a nipper (family in Kempe Road) - we too went mushroom picking alongside Kingswood Avenue. I wonder if they were the naughty type. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 15:14 - Oct 4 with 5069 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
My favourites are probably just outside London. High Elms Country Park in Bromley is nice all year round. Langley Park is particularly nice in Spring.
Inside London I remember liking Highgate Woods and Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington is amazing.
For long walks you can’t beat Richmond Park and nearby Wimbledon Common or strolling along the Thames, anywhere west of Hammersmith really. [Post edited 4 Oct 2019 15:16]
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| London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 with 5044 views | qprxtc |
Ravenscourt Park, Holland Park and Wormwood Scrubs.
And the Little Scrubs. [Post edited 4 Oct 2019 15:20]
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| London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 with 5044 views | runningman75 |
My mum is near Queens Park and used to love the pitch and putt course as a teenager. I am in East London and love running around Victoria Park though get lapped by trendy hipsters. Also love Hampstead heath again throughout the year love watching the leaves change colour and the view at Parliament Hill is amazing. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:35 - Oct 4 with 5007 views | stowmarketrange |
| London Parks.... on 15:14 - Oct 4 by CliveWilsonSaid |
My favourites are probably just outside London. High Elms Country Park in Bromley is nice all year round. Langley Park is particularly nice in Spring.
Inside London I remember liking Highgate Woods and Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington is amazing.
For long walks you can’t beat Richmond Park and nearby Wimbledon Common or strolling along the Thames, anywhere west of Hammersmith really. [Post edited 4 Oct 2019 15:16]
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I lived in roehampton for 16 and was right in the middle of Richmond Park,wimbledon common and Barnes common all within a short stroll.
And QPR was only a 72 bus ride away.
Happy days indeed. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:38 - Oct 4 with 4992 views | TacticalR |
Holland Park.
It's a world unto itself. It's a little patch of enclosed countryside in the middle of a city. It's got a bit of everything...a wood, a formal garden, an orangery, a cricket pitch, tennis courts, an adventure playground, a cafe, and the remnants of a stately home.
p.s. When I was child I used to have a very unhealthy fascination with the Commonwealth Institute (now the Design Museum). |  |
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| London Parks.... on 15:40 - Oct 4 with 4983 views | hubble |
| London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 by runningman75 |
My mum is near Queens Park and used to love the pitch and putt course as a teenager. I am in East London and love running around Victoria Park though get lapped by trendy hipsters. Also love Hampstead heath again throughout the year love watching the leaves change colour and the view at Parliament Hill is amazing. |
We're playing our annual QP pitch and putt tournament there on Sunday! | |
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| London Parks.... on 15:41 - Oct 4 with 4985 views | bob566 |
bird watching at Old Oak Common. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:44 - Oct 4 with 4972 views | ozranger |
We occasionally walk through Greenwich Park, which too has some quite good views and lovely gardens. However, I think Bushy Park is quite something, especially if you enter from the Teddington end. |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:47 - Oct 4 with 4955 views | hubble |
| London Parks.... on 15:44 - Oct 4 by ozranger |
We occasionally walk through Greenwich Park, which too has some quite good views and lovely gardens. However, I think Bushy Park is quite something, especially if you enter from the Teddington end. |
Euphemismtastic. | |
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| London Parks.... on 15:56 - Oct 4 with 4935 views | BuckR |
Ji-Sung Park - load of shite | | | |
| London Parks.... on 15:57 - Oct 4 with 4932 views | runningman75 |
| London Parks.... on 15:40 - Oct 4 by hubble |
We're playing our annual QP pitch and putt tournament there on Sunday! |
Not played in years think my favourite hole was number 5 on the hill. Is the hill still there? Hit the flag once and had a few 2's on that but other times had 7 or 8's depending on flag placement and speed of green. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:02 - Oct 4 with 4916 views | CincyHoop |
When I was in London last November, I was staying at a place in Notting Hill, near I think the Royal Oak station. Took a nice run to Hyde Park and through it and back. Really pleasurable experience. I am generally not a huge park guy, but something about the pristine buildings, the pond, the swans, it was just genuinely a great 45 min run. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:03 - Oct 4 with 4915 views | hopphoops |
A little-known gem: Warren Farm in Ealing. It too has everything - I spotted a coelacanth there only yesterday. |  |
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| London Parks.... on 16:04 - Oct 4 with 4909 views | hopphoops |
| London Parks.... on 15:40 - Oct 4 by hubble |
We're playing our annual QP pitch and putt tournament there on Sunday! |
Does the parkie still yell at you if you arrive on your pushbike? | |
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| London Parks.... on 16:18 - Oct 4 with 4878 views | Juzzie |
In no particular order;
Holland Park - always went as a kid back in the 70's nice mixture of woodland, open spaces, adventure playground.
Hyde Park - Nice and big and back then did a lot of swimming in the Serpentine as a teenager.
Richmond Park - even bigger. Lots of family birthday picnics there
Crane Park - Close to where I now live. My boy (almost 5) loves it there.
Primrose Hill -close to where I previously lived, always a nice stroll up the hill on a Sunday nursing a hangover |  | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:39 - Oct 4 with 4844 views | marky67 |
st james`s park as i grew up close to there as a kid and have memories of my parents taking me to the playground fretting i was coming off the roundabout at speed. still live not too far away and is lovely to walk through in the summer.
regents park, used to play junior football there for my youth club. | | | |
| London Parks.... on 16:45 - Oct 4 with 4826 views | CiderwithRsie |
What a great thread.
For me there are two great multi-park systems: Regents Park then down Baker Street (with Gerry Rafferty soundtrack in my head) to Hyde Park, west to Kensington Gardens and back east along the south side of Hyde Park and into St James Park, finishing up with the view of the imaginary building on the other side of Horse Guards Parade where the Horse Guards building seems to merge into the skyline of Whitehall beyond it. It's a short step from there to Westminster Bridge and the Abbey
Then there's the Wimbledon Common-Richmond Park-Kew Gardens-Hampton Court sprawl, so big that walking across it in one day is a serious trek.
Both end with glorious sections of the Thames.
But if you pin me down to just one then Holland Park is a perfect little jewel. [Post edited 4 Oct 2019 17:52]
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| London Parks.... on 16:46 - Oct 4 with 4817 views | Antti_Heinola |
| London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 by qprxtc |
Ravenscourt Park, Holland Park and Wormwood Scrubs.
And the Little Scrubs. [Post edited 4 Oct 2019 15:20]
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I work near Ravenscourt park and it is a beautiful park absolutely ruined by the millions of dogs and their sh*t that their posh owners (or overworked dog walkers) never seem to clear up. Awful round here.
dulwich Park is very nice. |  |
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