Main Elements of The Park
Accessed from the A316:
- Recreation Ground, with open recreation areas, football, rugby and other pitches.
- Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club courses.
- King's Observatory compound.
- Richmond Athletic Ground, also home to London Scottish and Richmond rugby clubs.
- Richmond Swimming Pool & Lido, now called "Pools on the Park".
- Public car park and miscellaneous commercial buildings.
Accessed from the A307:
- Sports Ground with rugby (London Welsh), cricket, tennis and bowls.
Read more about this topic: Old Deer Park
Famous quotes containing the words main, elements and/or park:
“Of all wit’s uses, the main one
Is to live well with who has none.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)