168 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 Herne 
Hill, and there he wrote “ Modern Painters.” From then 
until 1871 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- 
