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Key facts
- Type
- Public park
- Location
- London
- Area
- 410 acres (170 ha; 1.7 km )
- Operator
- The Royal Parks
- Open
- Open, year-round
- Status
- Existing
- Website
- www .royalparks .org .uk /parks /the-regents-park
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- park
- Part of
- Royal Parks of London
- Named after
- George IV of the United Kingdom
- Official name
- The Regent's Park
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London Borough of Camden
- Area
- 410
- Shares border with
- Camden Town
- Official website
- www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/the-regents-park
- Image
- Regent's Park London.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Regent's Park
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- Regent's Park
- Commons category
- Regent's Park
- partially coincident with
- Park Square
- historic county
- Middlesex
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- OS grid reference
- TQ2868482113
- native label
- Regent's Park
- architect
- John Nash
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Encyclopedic overview
The Regent's Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. It occupies 410 acres (170 ha) in north-west Inner London, administratively split between the City of Westminster and the Borough of Camden (and historically between Marylebone and Saint Pancras parishes). In addition to its large central parkland and ornamental lake, it contains various structures and organizations both public and private, generally on its periphery, including Regent's University and London Zoo.
What is now Regent's Park came into possession of the Crown upon the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1500s, and was used for hunting and tenant farming. In the 1810s, the Prince Regent proposed turning it into a pleasure garden. The park was designed by John Nash and James and Decimus Burton. Its construction was financed privately by James Burton after the Crown Estate rescinded its pledge to do so, and included development on the periphery of aristocratic townhouses and expensive terrace dwellings. The park is Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Regent's Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.