152 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
way, but left as it might be in Herefordshire, with grass 
and wild flowers under the trees, which bear bushels of 
ruddy apples every year. 
Part of the Park is actually outside London, but it is 
all kept up by the London County Council. The parish 
boundary of Hampstead and Hendon, which is also the 
limit of the County of London, is seen in the middle 
among the oak trees. 
Ravenscourt Park 
Ravenscourt is another of those parks the nucleus of 
which was an old Manor House, hence the existence 
of fine old trees, which at once lift from it the crudeness 
which is invariably associated with a brand-new Municipal 
Park. A bird’s-eye view of the ground is familiar to 
many who pass over the viaduct in the London and 
South-Western trains. These arches intersect one end of 
the Park, and cut across the beginning of the fine old 
elm avenue, one of its most beautiful features. A bright 
piece of garden, typical of every London Park, with raised 
borders in bays and promontories, jutting into grass and 
backed by bushes, lies to the south of the viaduct. 
Where two paths diverge there is a pleasing variation to 
the usual type—a sun-dial—erected by Sir William Bull 
to “ a sunny memory.” The arches have been utilised 
so as to compensate for the intrusion of the railway. 
Asphalted underneath, they form shelters in wet weather 
—one is given over to an aviary, two to bars for the 
elder children to climb on, and one is fitted with swings 
for the babies. This arch is by far the most popular, 
and it requires all the vigilance of the park-keeper to see 
that only the really small children use the swings, or 
the bigger girls would monopolise them. Perhaps the 
