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London Parks.... 14:47 - Oct 4 with 13552 viewsBoston

...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 5424 viewsstowmarketrange

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.
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London Parks.... on 14:59 - Oct 4 with 5402 viewsRBlock

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.
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London Parks.... on 15:06 - Oct 4 with 5381 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

Queens Park and Paddington Rec, purely for nostalgic reasons.
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London Parks.... on 15:06 - Oct 4 with 5380 viewshubble

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 5374 viewsMrSheen

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.
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London Parks.... on 15:12 - Oct 4 with 5358 viewsMick_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.

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

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London Parks.... on 15:14 - Oct 4 with 5352 viewsCliveWilsonSaid

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.
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London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 with 5327 viewsqprxtc

Ravenscourt Park, Holland Park and Wormwood Scrubs.

And the Little Scrubs.
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London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 with 5327 viewsrunningman75

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.
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London Parks.... on 15:35 - Oct 4 with 5290 viewsstowmarketrange

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.
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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.
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London Parks.... on 15:38 - Oct 4 with 5275 viewsTacticalR

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).

Air hostess clique

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London Parks.... on 15:40 - Oct 4 with 5266 viewshubble

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 5268 viewsbob566

bird watching at Old Oak Common.
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London Parks.... on 15:44 - Oct 4 with 5257 viewsMetallica_Hoop

I still run around the Scrubs and Queen's Park.

My favourite is this tucked away near King's Cross. The Old St Georges Bloomsbury burial ground.



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Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent

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London Parks.... on 15:44 - Oct 4 with 5255 viewsozranger

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.
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London Parks.... on 15:47 - Oct 4 with 5238 viewshubble

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 5218 viewsBuckR

Ji-Sung Park - load of shite
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London Parks.... on 15:57 - Oct 4 with 5215 viewsrunningman75

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.
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London Parks.... on 16:02 - Oct 4 with 5199 viewsCincyHoop

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.
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London Parks.... on 16:03 - Oct 4 with 5198 viewshopphoops

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 5192 viewshopphoops

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 5161 viewsJuzzie

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
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London Parks.... on 16:39 - Oct 4 with 5127 viewsmarky67

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.
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London Parks.... on 16:45 - Oct 4 with 5109 viewsCiderwithRsie

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.
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London Parks.... on 16:46 - Oct 4 with 5100 viewsAntti_Heinola

London Parks.... on 15:20 - Oct 4 by qprxtc

Ravenscourt Park, Holland Park and Wormwood Scrubs.

And the Little Scrubs.
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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.

Bare bones.

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