Regent’s Park

photo_regentsduckThe Regent’s Park covers 166 hectares (410 acres) and includes stunning rose gardens with more than 30,000 roses of 400 varieties.Β  The Park has excellent sports facilities and with nearly 100 acres available is the largest outdoor sports area in Central London.Β  It is a great place to playΒ  grass sports and offers a wide variety of activities, as well as an Open Air Theatre, the London Zoo and many cafes and restaurants.

Henry VIII appropriated The Regent’s Park for use as a hunting ground, which he considered to be an invigorating ride from Whitehall Palace. At that time, the only boundaries were a ditch and a rampart. Where he here today, Henry would hardly recognise the stylish gardens and sports fields that now stand in its place.

Opening times:
Daily from 5am until dusk

By tube:
Regent’s Park (Bakerloo)
Great Portland Street (Hammersmith & City, Circle & Metropolitan)
Baker Street (Hammersmith & City, Circle, Jubilee, Metropolitan & Bakerloo)
St John’s Wood (Jubilee)
Camden Town (Northern)

By bus:
2 Marylebone Station – Crystal Palace
13 Aldwych – Golders Green
18 Euston – Sudbury
27 Chalk Farm – Turnham Green
30 Marble Arch – Hackney Wick
74 Baker St Station – Roehampton
82 Victoria – North Finchley
113 Oxford Circus – Edgware
139 Waterloo – West Hampstead
189 Oxford Circus – Brent Cross Shopping Centre
274 Angel Islington – Lancaster Gate
453 Marylebone Street – Deptford Broadway
C2 Oxford Circus – Parliament Hill Fields

By car:
There is Pay and Display Parking along Chester Road on the Outer Circle and Inner Circle, between 0900 and 1830 everyday.

Website:
www.royalparks.org.uk

Address:
Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NR (Map)

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