London’s Pocket Parks - Archive Articles

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.

London’s Pocket Parks: Prince’s Gardens, SW7

This is a large garden square near South Kensington's museums but hidden away behind rows of houses so only the locals know about it.

London’s Pocket Parks: Barnsbury Wood, N1

Described as London's smallest nature reserve, this patch of woodland is hidden behind a triangle of Georgian houses in Islington, and only open to the public for 2 hours a week.

London’s Pocket Parks: Olympic Ring Park, N1C

A small roadside park alongside St Pancras Station has something hidden in the bushes - pieces of the London 2012 Olympic rings.

London’s Pocket Parks: Calthorpe Community Garden, WC1

This community park and allotments on Grays Inn Road is a legacy of campaigning to prevent an office block from being built here.

London’s Pocket Parks: Leathermarket Gardens, SE1

This largish park near London Bridge is the result of post-WW2 clearance when most of the site was flattened by bombs.

London’s Pocket Parks: Salters’ Gardens, EC2

This is a sunken garden not far from the Barbican that until recently was a little known space hidden from view by 1970s office blocks.

London’s Pocket Parks: Charlton station

This is a pocket park that sits next to Charlton station in southeast London and was created in 2013 as the first site of a local community gardens group.

London’s Pocket Parks: Holy Trinity Brompton churchyard

Hidden away from the hustle and bustle of busy Knightsbridge is this large open churchyard that's an oasis of calm.

London’s Pocket Parks: King Square Gardens, EC1

This is a large municipal park surrounded by tower blocks that was once a middle-class Georgian housing development and later gained fame for some marching hammers.

London’s Pocket Parks: All Hallows Church, EC2

This is a narrow stony pocket park with raised beds of flowers that sits on an old church graveyard overlooking London Wall.

London’s Pocket Parks: Artizan Street, E1

This is a deceptively simple-looking pocket park if you aren't aware of what used to be here - it used to be an ugly car park ramp.

London’s Pocket Parks: Willow Street, EC2

This Shoreditch based pocket park is relatively new sitting on top of what had been a service ramp to an underground car park.

London’s Pocket Parks: Graham Street Park, N1

This is today a modest park with a playground that conveniently faces onto a canal dock, but was once mainly industrial.