Southwark Parks and Open Spaces

Southwark Parks And Open Spaces

The London Borough of Southwark, occupying a roughly triangular area south of Tower Bridge over the River Thames, considers itself to be one of the greenest boroughs in London, insofar as its parks and open spaces are concerned. There are more than 130 such green areas, ranging from the large areas around Dulwich and Southwark Park in Rotherhithe to the many sports grounds and squares. The main ones are:

  • Belair Park north of West Dulwich railway station: Grade II listed landscape, lake and sports facilities
  • Burgess Park
  • Camberwell Green
  • Dulwich Park: a huge area of open space, created in 1890; contains several garden areas, many sports facilities
  • Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park: area surrounding the Imperial War Museum (also includes the Tibetan Peace Garden)
  • Newington Gardens
  • One Tree Hill, near Honor Oak Park railway station
  • Peckham Rye Park and Common: the park is Edwardian and is undergoing restoration (see here
  • Nunhead Cemetery
  • Southwark Park: opened 1869, one of the earliest opened by the Metropolitan Board of Works: gardens, sports facilities
  • Sydenham Hill Wood remains of the Great North Wood.

The centre of the following squares are laid to gardens:

  • Lorrimore Square
  • West Square

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Famous quotes containing the words parks, open and/or spaces:

    “Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “Go forth under the open sky, and list
    To Nature’s teachings,”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    “Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)