Principal Parks and Open Spaces
The principal parks in Tower Hamlets are:
- Victoria Park: 215 acres (86ha), created 1884
- Mile End Park: 73 acres (29 ha), (stretches from Limehouse to Victoria Park along the Regent's Canal; international athletics stadium
- Mudchute Park: 40 acres (16ha), which includes the largest urban farm in Europe
- The Olympic Park is partly in the borough
Smaller parks within the Borough include:
- Altab Ali Park, formerly St Mary's Park, in Aldgate
- Bartlett Park in Poplar
- Island Gardens: small Thames riverside park
- King Edward Memorial Park: 8 acres (3.3ha) in Shadwell
- St George's Gardens around the Nicholas Hawksmoor church of St George in the East
- Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and Ackroyd Drive Local Nature Reserve
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