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This thin strip of land next to the busy roads of Bethnal Green is the rather inappropriately named Paradise Gardens.

Hidden behind a high way away from the main town centre is a garden that sits on the site of an old Manor House.

This particular pocket park is so pocket and so unparklike that it almost scorns the title -- yet it could be so much better.

As part of the annual Open Garden Squares Weekend that takes place later this year, one rather special garden will be open to the public – the one behind 10 Downing Street.

A new roof garden has opened in the City of London, and what it lacks in height, it more than makes up for in width -- it's the largest roof garden in London.

There can be few greater delights than a wander through a wood on a cold winters day, and sadly, few more dispiriting than a visit to a municipal park on the same day.

Hidden in a side alley behind the back of Mansion House is a gated, and often locked pocket park.

This is a pocket park that sits right on top of a tube station, and one that very nearly didn't exist.

Granville Square is a prominent tree lined square surrounded by period homes, located north of Kings Cross Road.

A ramshackle old park that looks in need of some T&C with grave stones haphazardly sinking into the ground, this is St Andrew's Garden in Camden.

Like many pocket parks, this is the result of too many people dying too often -- it's a disused graveyard.

Just to the south of Old Street can be found one of London's oldest and greatest burial grounds, and one with a most unusual history.

London's newest Pocket Park opened a couple of weeks ago, replacing an ugly road junction that was a legacy of 1960s thinking.

A gas lamp lit shady rectangle of grass providing relaxing seating next to a church for a She-Wolf.

This is rather forlorn pocket park of the sort that only a mother could love, sitting in the corner of a corner of two busy roads.