Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hyde Park

Hyde Park, Westminster, London; with Kensington Gardens - which are simply a continuation of Hyde Park - it is nearly 1½ mile long and ¾ mile broad; it is traversed in all directions by pleasant walks and carriage drives, and contains the Rotten Row, the Serpentine, and the Albert Memorial.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Administrative units: London Ancient County
Place: Hyde Park

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