London’s Pocket Parks: Alfred Place Gardens, WC1
This is a new linear pocket park in central London that was until a few months ago an unremarkable road used mainly for parking and deliveries.
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A long-running series of articles about the many small parks that can be found all over London.
London’s Pocket Parks: Alfred Place Gardens, WC1
This is a new linear pocket park in central London that was until a few months ago an unremarkable road used mainly for parking and deliveries.
London’s Pocket Parks: Bramber Green, WC1
Originally constructed on a WW2 bomb damaged housing site, Bramber Green in King's Cross was created in the early 1960s to accompany an orange coloured block of flats after which it was named, Bramber House.
London’s Pocket Parks: Talbot Yard courtyard, SE1
A rather modern take on the public park can be found hidden away in the narrow side streets to the south of London Bridge station in a corner you're unlikely to stumble upon by accident.
London’s Pocket Parks: Paddington Green, W2
This is a pocket park next to a busy road that today scarce seems like it but has been around for at least 500 years, and now conceals a Cold War bunker.
London’s Pocket Parks: St Paul’s Cathedral Chapter House, EC4
Easy to overlook on a visit to the Cathedral, but there's a small garden that is laid out to match the site of the medieval cathedral's Chapter House and Cloister.
London’s Pocket Parks: Arnold Estate, SE1
This is a small park in Bermondsey that used to be the site of a Victorian music hall, the Star of Bermondsey, and an adjacent pub-hotel.
London’s Pocket Parks: Greenwood Theatre Garden, SE1
Wrapping around the outside of a theatre next to London Bridge station is a linear pocket park that opened in 2015.
Plans for NHS Covid memorial in Postman’s Park
The Postman's Park in the City of London, which is home to a famous wall of memorials to those that have given their lives whilst saving the lives of others, could gain an NHS memorial
London’s pocket parks: Christ Church, Spitalfields, E1
Sitting next to Spitalfields dominant church is a small public park that's a remnant of a much larger graveyard that used to sit to the south of the church.
Plans submitted to revamp Grosvenor Square
The large public garden, Grosvenor Square will reach its 300 year anniversary in 2025, and ahead of that, there are plans to substantially revamp the garden space.
London’s Pocket Parks: Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens, N1
This is a small park next to the Regents Canal in Barnsbury, that was created as a result of changes to the rules about walking along the canal.
London’s largest roof garden – 120 Fenchurch Street – reopens
After a rather long pandemic closure, the large roof garden at 120 Fenchurch Street has reopened to the public, with a very windswept opening week ahead.
London’s Pocket Parks: Hanover Square, W1
This is one of London's oldest formal squares, just to the south of Oxford Street, and usually, the sort of park only used by locals who know about it, but soon to get a lot busier
London’s Pocket Parks: The Memorial Garden of Rest, W1
This pocket park is 70 years old this year, and was created on the site of a former church that stood next to Marylebone High Street.
London’s Pocket Parks: Royal Docks floating garden
A few weeks ago a new pocket park opened in London, and this one floats on the water.
Camley Street’s natural park has reopened to the public
A rich nature reserve squeezes into a long narrow gap between two railway stations, and after several years of being closed to the public, the Camley Street Natural Park has at last reopened.
London’s Pocket Parks: Pont Street, SW1
It doesn't look it yet, but this patch of ground that looks like it's been used by the local horse riding society is going to become London's newest pocket park.
London’s largest roof garden reopening to the public
The roof garden on top of the office block at 120 Fenchurch Street is to reopen following a lengthy pandemic closure.
London’s Pocket Parks: Argyle Square, WC1
This is a municipal garden square that offers a calm quiet patch of greenery just a few moments from King's Cross station.
London’s Pocket Parks: Bird in Bush Park, SE15
This triangular plot of a park can be found just off the Old Kent Road, and is the result of housing clearance in the 1970s.
London’s Pocket Parks: Rathbone Square, W1
Just moments from Oxford Street, this is a newish pocket park that sits inside a new mixed development of offices and residential flats with a semi-public square in the middle.
London’s Pocket Parks: Belsize Wood, NW3
Around the back of suburban houses in Belsize Park is a small but richly planted woodland on a very steep slope.
A plant covered sculpture in King’s Cross
On a side street in King's Cross can be found a wall covered in plants in an unusual plant pot -- a sculpture garden.
London’s Pocket Parks: St George’s Gardens, WC1
This is a large secluded park that has several small entrances off residential roads, so unless you're exploring Bloomsbury's side streets it's very easy to not know it's here.