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)
“For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women.... The psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing with blocks generally create pleasant interior spaces and attractive entrances, little boys are inclined to pile up the blocks as high as they can and then watch them fall down: “the contemplation of ruins,” Erikson observes, “is a masculine specialty.””
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)