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Key facts
- Type
- Public park
- Location
- London , SW1 , United Kingdom
- Area
- 19 hectares (47 acres)
- Operator
- The Royal Parks
- Public transit
- Green Park
- Website
- www .royalparks .org .uk /parks /green-park
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- park
- Part of
- Royal Parks of London
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- City of Westminster
- Area
- 20.88
- Shares border with
- Constitution Hill
- Operator
- The Royal Parks
- Official website
- www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/green-park
- Image
- Green Park, London, England.jpg
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- Commons category
- Green Park, London
- native label
- Green Park
- historic county
- Middlesex
- different from
- Green Park
- OS grid reference
- TQ2889479975
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Green Park, one of the Royal Parks of London, is in the City of Westminster, Central London. Green Park is to the north of the gardens and semi-circular forecourt of Buckingham Palace, across Constitution Hill road. The park is in the middle of a near-continuous chain of green spaces in Westminster that includes St James's Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens. To the northeast of Green Park is the district of St James's including, Lancaster House, Clarence House, and St James's Palace.
First enclosed in the 17th century by King Charles II, it was landscaped in 1820 and is notable among central London parks for having no lakes or buildings, and only minimal flower planting in the form of naturalised narcissus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Green Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.