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This riverside park features a tall man made mound surrounded by a cluster of barrows offering views across south-east London.

This small side street park is an interesting park that was recently refurbished into its current rather bubbly appearance.

This otherwise fairly ordinary local park is a lingering relic of a grand Victorian pleasure garden that stretched all the way from the river to King's Road.

This sunken 1960s style garden exists thanks in part to the diligence of German bombers, but also a Tudor wedding.

This is an elevated pocket park next to London Wall that's both open to visit, but sufficiently off the obvious routes so hardly known.

Hidden behind a blue door lies one of London's most charming little pocket parks.

When out for a walk, I often take photos of things then research them when I get home. Here is a pocket park that I was to learn comes with a tragic ending.

Ever engage in a bit of quick research thinking this wont be difficult and an hour later am screaming at how little seems to be known about it. That's this pocket park.

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.