Hyde Park, London
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Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.
The park is divided in two by the Serpentine Lake. Hyde Park is 350 acres (1.4 km²), together with Kensington Gardens (275 acres, 1.1 km²) that is in the immediate neighbourhood the parks have an overall area of 625 acres (2.5 km²).
The park was the site of The Great Exhibition of 1851, for which the Crystal Palace was designed.
The park has become a traditional place for mass demonstrations.
[change] References
- Room, Adrian. Brewer's Names, Cassell, London, 1992. ISBN 0-304-34077-4
[change] Other websites
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Official website
- Map showing Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
- 'Hyde Park', Old and New London: Volume 4 (1878), pp. 375-405. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45205. Date accessed: 06 June 2007.
- Hyde Park Union: Documentary about Hyde Park and its speakers
- A few old postcards of Hyde Park and Marble Arch
- Hyde Park at Google Maps
- Hyde Park in the 19th century
- Hyde Park article
