Open Spaces
For King George's Field, see main article List of King George V Playing Fields (Greater London)
Durants Park was created in 1903 from the estate of the former manor house called Durrants.It was named after the family of Adam Durant from 1244. It later became the home of the Wroth and Stringer families. The gatehouse of the manor survived until 1910.
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“Hail ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it! like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight; ‘tis ye who open this door and let the stranger in.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there. For there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)