1 68 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 



Huguenots who had come to England at the time of 

 the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 



It was handed over to the newly-formed County 

 Council in 1889, having been previously laid out. The 

 way in which this was done with an avenue, which will 

 some day be one of the great beauties of the neighbour- 

 hood, and which is in the meantime a pleasant shady 

 walk, has already been commented on. For its size, 

 Myatt's Fields is one of the most tasteful of the new 

 parks. Its quaint name is a survival of the time 

 when the ground was a market-garden leased by a 

 certain Myatt from 1818-69. The excellent qualities 

 of the strawberries and rhubarb raised there, gave the 

 Fields such a good reputation in the district, and the 

 name became so familiar, that it was retained for the 

 Park. 



Camberwell Green is a distinct place, not far distant, 

 and is noticed among the village greens of London. 



RusKiN Park 



Ruskin Park, the newest of all the parks, is not very 

 far from Camberwell, and has been formed of a cluster of 

 houses, with grounds of their own, on Denmark Hill, 

 known as the Sanders' Estate. The name, which has an 

 " Art Nouveau " sound about it, and raises an expectation 

 of something beautiful, was given to it because John 

 Ruskin for many years lived in the neighbourhood. From 

 1823, when he was four, to 1843, his home was 28 Heme 

 Hill, and there he wrote " Modern Painters." From then 

 until 1 87 1 he lived even nearer the present Park, at 163 

 Denmark Hill. Describing the house, Ruskin wrote of 

 it : " It stood in command of seven acres of healthy 

 ground . . . half of it meadow sloping to the sun- 



