APPENDIX. 369 
APPENDIX IV. 
ROYAL AND PUBLIC PARKS WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN 
POLICE DISTRICT. 
Year in which In whom 
Name of Park. opened to the By whom opened. vested Acreage 
Public. 
Hyde Park - - | ae a eg The Crown = 350 
Kensington Gardens es 5B 26 oe 3 270 
The Green Park- — - assalaces es 53 
St. James’s Park - \ 0's |S x a 91 
Greenwich Park \ aos) im ofEes i on 148 
Richmond Park - - | a EES|Z22 6 3 2050 
Bushy Park - a) ‘a a a 680 
Hampton Court Gardens - 1838 Queen Victoria ae 36 
hs Tessa Various (|William IV 4 a 
Regent's Fark “| dates | Queen Victoria! J 275 
Kew Gardens 1841 Queen Victoria a 243 
Primrose Hill = - i 1843 5 ae 62 
Hampton Court Park - 1893 nd <3 630 
Victoria Park - 1842 The State -|The County 
Council -| 244 
Kennington Park - . 1854 The Duchy of 
Cornwall 20 
Battersea Park - 1858 The State - 198 
Finsbury Park : 1869 ‘The Metropoli- 
tan Board ot 
Works - -! fs 115 
Southwark Park - 1869 44 56 63 
West Ham Park 18d4 TheCorporation'The Cor- 
of London -) poration 80 
Highbury Fields : 1885 The Metropoli-|TheCount) 
tan Board ot} Council -| 25 
Works - 
Ravenscourt Park 1887 ” ” | 32 
Clissold Park 1889 The County, 
Council - eS | 53 
Dulwich Park - 1890 Dulwich College 3 } 72 
Waterlow Park 181 Sir Sydney | 
i Waterlow - 55 | 26 
Brockwell Park 1892 ‘The County: 
| Council -| ss 7S 
Hilly Fields, Brockley - 193 |, | ft 
Fulham Park - 18938 The Kceclesias-' | 
. tical Commis-| 
sioners - rr 19 
Total | 5,957 
i 4 
N.B.—In the cases of Ravenscourt, Clissuld, and Brockwell Parks, and of the 
Hilly Fields, the Vestries, the Charity Commissioners, and others, 
contributed to the cost of purchase. 
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