The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, an Inner London borough, has a total of 231 hectares of parks and open spaces that are accessible to the general public. 159 hectares of this is within parks and 52.5 hectares are within cemeteries and churchyards. Wormwood Scrubs and Scrubs Wood, located in the north of the Borough account for 42 hectares and Fulham Palace and Bishop's Park grounds contain another 14 hectares of open space. Private open space includes Hurlingham, Fulham and Queen's Club in West Kensington.
The main areas of open space in the Borough are:
- Bishops Park, Fulham
- Brook Green
- Hammersmith Cemetery
- Hurlingham Park
- Eel Brook Common
- Furnival Gardens
- Norland North open space, Shepherd's Bush
- Parsons Green
- Ravenscourt Park
- St Mary's RC Cemetery, College Park
- St Paul's Green, Hammersmith
- Shepherd's Bush Green (also known as Shepherd's Bush Common)
- South Park, Fulham, SW6
- Wendell Park
- Wormholt Park
- Wormwood Scrubs and Little Wormwood Scrubs
and two Thames riverside developments, under creation at:
- Imperial Wharf, Fulham
- Hammersmith Embankment
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)
“In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
“through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)