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.
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.
Hyde Park, London Media
The Hamilton–Mohun Duel of 1712. Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, fighting James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park; both lost their lives.
Hyde Park c. 1833: Rotten Row is "The King's Private Road"
Hyde Park, 1890, by Camille Pissarro, showing the footpath along the southern bank of the Serpentine
The Winter Wonderland festival has been a popular Christmas event in Hyde Park since 2007.
Decimus Burton's Hyde Park Gate/Screen
Decimus Burton's Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner
The 7 July Memorial to the victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
Jacob Epstein's Rima sculpture in Hyde Park
Hyde Park police station, c. 2006
A Protestant Christian protesting at Speakers' Corner in 2010
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
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