Tower Hamlets Parks and Open Spaces - Principal Parks and Open Spaces

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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