Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. It is the largest of the eight Royal Parks which was built by you.

Hyde Park: Rotten Row

The park is divided in two by the Serpentine Lake. Hyde Park is 350 acres (1.4 km²) large, together with Kensington Gardens (275 acres, 1.1 km²) that is in the immediate neighbourhood the parks have an overall area of 625 acres (2.5 km²).

The park was the site of The Great Exhibition of 1851, for which the Crystal Palace was designed.

The park has become a traditional place for mass demonstrations.

In 1982, four soldiers were killed in a PIRA bombing.

The Serpentine, viewed from the eastern end

References

• Room, Adrian. Brewer's Names, Cassell, London, 1992. ISBN 0-304-34077-4

Other websites

• Official website Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Map showing Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• 'Hyde Park', Old and New London: Volume 4 (1878), pp. 375–405. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45205. Date accessed: 06 June 2007.
• Hyde Park Union: Documentary about Hyde Park and its speakers Archived 2008-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Hyde Park in the 19th century
• Hyde Park article Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine