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:
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Though there were numerous vessels at this great distance in the horizon on every side, yet the vast spaces between them, like the spaces between the stars,—far as they were distant from us, so were they from one another,—nay, some were twice as far from each other as from us,—impressed us with a sense of the immensity of the ocean, the “unfruitful ocean,” as it has been called, and we could see what proportion man and his works bear to the globe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)