Bessborough Gardens were commissioned by the Crown Estate in the 1980s. The landscape architect for the garden square, Peter Shepheard, also designed the Queen ... read more
Buckingham Palace is the best known royal residence in the world, and can be visited at certain periods of every year. It was acquired from the Duke of Buckingham by ... read more
Duck Island Cottage Garden, St James's Park is an Arts & Crafts-style garden, surrounding the restored keepers's cottage of Duck Island. Duck island dates ... read more
Eltham Palace is the former residence, built in the 1930s in Art Deco style, of the eccentric millionaire couple Stephen and Viriginia Courtauld. The site has been a ... read more
The Green Park is, with its 16 ha (40 acres), the smallest one of London’s eight Royal Parks. It became Crown property in 1668, under Charles II. It was opened to the ... read more
Greenwich Park, covering 74 ha (183 acres), is one of the eight Royal Parks. It stands on 'Prime Meridian', the world's time reference point (Royal ... read more
Hyde Park, covering 142 ha (350 acres), is one of London's eight Royal Parks. It was created on request of Henry III in 1536, and used as a hunting ground. ... read more
Inner and Middle Temple date back to the Knight's Templar and Knights Hospitallers. The Temple was seized by Henry VIII in 1540 and belongs since then to the Crown. ... read more
Kensington Gardens & Italian Gardens, 107 ha (265 acres), is one of the Eight Royal Parks. The site was, up to 1728, part of Hyde Park. The latter was created for ... read more
Kensington Palace was the residence of the (Dutch) Stadholder-King William III and his English wife, Mary Stuart. The house was remodelled for them by Sir Christopher ... read more
The Regent’s Park is one of London’s eight Royal Parks and covers an area of 160 ha (395 acres). It was named after the Prince Regent, the later King George IV ... read more
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the historic site of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the world-famous Meridian Line. Managed as part of the National ... read more
St James's Park is one of the eight Royal Parks and covers 23 ha (57 acres). The park has a small lake, St James's Park Lake, with two islands, West Island, ... read more
Victoria Tower Gardens is one of the eight Royal Parks. It was created in the 1870s and are used for 'political' sculptures, celebrating freedom. It ... read more
