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squares, while Soho Square Historic Cemeteries
offers welcome respite from
nearby busy Oxford Street. In the late 1830s, private cemeteries
were established around London to ease
the pressure on the overcrowded and
Music in Summer unhealthy burial grounds of the inner city.
Stretching out on the grass or Today some of these, notably Highgate
in a deckchair to listen to a Cemetery, Kensal Green Cemetery
band is a British tradition. (Harrow Road, W10) and Brompton
Military and other bands give Cemetery (Fulham Road, SW10), are worth
visiting for their Victorian monuments.
regular concerts throughout Bunhill Fields is an earlier burial site, first
the summer at St James’s and used during the plague of 1665.
Regent’s Parks and also at Kensal Green cemetery
Parliament Hill Fields. The
concert schedule will usually
be found posted up close to
the bandstand in the park.
Open-air summer festivals of
pop and classical music are held
in several parks (see p345).

Wildlife
There is a large and well-fed
collection of ducks and
other water birds, even
including a few pelicans, in Boating pond at Regent’s Park
St James’s Park. Duck lovers
will also appreciate Regent’s,
Hyde and Battersea Parks, as Sports Where to Find the
well as Hampstead Heath. Most parks have tennis courts, Parks and Gardens
Deer roam in Richmond and which normally have to be Barbican Centre p172
Greenwich Parks. Captive reserved in advance. Rowing Battersea Park p257
animals can be found at boats may be hired at Hyde, Berkeley Square p277
London Zoo, in Regent’s Park, Regent’s and Battersea Bunhill Fields p172
as well as in aviaries or Parks, among others. There Chelsea Physic Garden p201
aquariums located at several are athletics tracks at both Chiswick House pp264–5
parks and gardens, including Battersea Park and Parliament Fenton House p236
Kew Gardens and Syon House. Hill. The public may swim at Gray’s Inn p145
the ponds on Hampstead Green Park p97
Greenwich Park p247
Heath and in the Serpentine Grosvenor Square p101
in Hyde Park. Cycling is not Ham House p258
universally encouraged in Hampstead Heath p238
London’s parks, but Queen Hampton Court pp260–63
Elizabeth Olympic Park is Highgate Cemetery p252
an exception. Sporting events Holland Park p222
are held here regularly and Hyde Park p213
the Aquatics Centre is open Kensington Gardens pp212–13
Geese in St James’s Park to the public. Kensington Palace p212
Kenwood House pp238–9
Kew Gardens pp266–7
Lincoln’s Inn Fields p141
London Zoo p231
Middle Temple p143
Museum of Garden History p194
Osterley Park p259
Parliament Hill pp238–9
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
pp254–5
Regent’s Park p228
Richmond Park p258
Russell Square p132
The common beech has a close The horse chestnut’s hard St James’s Park p96
relation, the copper beech, with round fruits are used by children Soho Square p112
reddish-purple leaves. for a game called conkers.
Syon House p259

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