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:
“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)
“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well when their grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)