London Quiz - Royal Parks (Answers)
London can boast of 8 Royal Parks. They are all managed by The Royal Parks Trust and cover almost 5,000 acres. The Royal Parks Trust is also responsible for other green spaces in the capital such as Brompton Cemetery, Victoria Tower Gardens, the gardens of 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street and Grosvenor Square Garden.
What do you know about the Royal Parks of London?
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Battersea Park is operated by Wandsworth Council
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Green Park is also where King Charles II liked to take his daily walk or ‘constitutional’, hence the name of the road Constitution Hill today
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The creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, lived close to Kensington Gardens and in 1912 commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue
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The event was set up as a fundraising initiative to raise money for The Royal Parks Foundation and UK charities
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The Burghers of Calais statue is in Victoria Tower Gardens. It was completed in 1889 and represents a period in the Hundred Years' War when the French port of Calais was under siege by the English for over a year
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It is often said that this is because Charles II’s wife discovered he’d been picking flowers there for his mistress and ordered them all to be uprooted
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Pelicans were first introduced into St James' Park in 1664 as a gift from the Russian ambassador
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Benches may be a more traditional option but why not go for a rose?
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It is roughly 3 times the size of New York’s Central Park but half the size of Madrid’s Casa de Campo
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Regent’s Park was created by architect John Nash for the Prince Regent, later George IV, as part of a scheme including Regent Street and Carlton House
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