Official website (https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/st-jamess-park)
St James's Park
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Royal Park in London
Key facts
- Location
- London, SW1 , United Kingdom
- Area
- 23 hectares (57 acres)
- Operator
- The Royal Parks
- Public transit
- St James's Park , Green Park , Victoria , and Westminster tube stations
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
St. James's Park | The Royal Parks
Welcome to St. James’s Park, the oldest Royal Park at the heart of ceremonial London. Enjoy great views of the lake and fountain from St. James’s Café.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- park
- Part of
- Royal Parks of London
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- City of Westminster
- Area
- 36.88
- Shares border with
- The Mall
- Operator
- The Royal Parks
- Official website
- www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/st-jamess-park
- Image
- Big Ben Parketik - panoramio.jpg
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- native label
- St. James's Park
- Commons category
- St. James's Park
- inception
- 1603-00-00
- date of official opening
- 1532-00-00
- historic county
- Middlesex
- different from
- St James’ Park
- OS grid reference
- TQ2945579732
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster, central London. A Royal Park, it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less, now the site of St James's Palace. The area was initially enclosed for a deer park near the Palace of Whitehall for King Henry VIII in the 1530s. It is the most easterly of a near-continuous chain of public parks that includes (moving westward) Green Park, Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens.
The park is bounded by Buckingham Palace to the west, The Mall to the north, Horse Guards to the east, and Birdcage Walk to the south. It meets Green Park at Queen's Gardens with the Victoria Memorial at its centre, opposite the entrance to Buckingham Palace. St James's Palace is on the opposite side of The Mall. The closest London Underground stations are St James's Park, Green Park, Victoria, and Westminster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “St James's Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.