Richmond Park - Size

Size

Richmond Park is the second largest park in London (after the 10,000 acre Lee Valley Park, whose area extends beyond the M25 into Hertfordshire and Essex) and is Britain's second largest urban walled park after Sutton Park, Birmingham. Measuring 3.69 square miles (955 ha or 2,360 acres),it is comparable in size to Paris's Bois de Vincennes (995 ha or 2,458 acres) and Bois de Boulogne (846 ha or 2,090 acres).

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