London's oldest enclosed Royal Park, first established in 1433, Greenwich Park includes several notable buildings and offers some of the finest views of London and the River Thames. Designers who worked here include Andre le Notre, the French royal landscape designer who laid out the gardens at Versailles, and Inigo Jones who designed the Queen's House. On the northern boundary lies the old Royal Naval College by Christopher Wren, perhaps the greatest baroque building complex in Britain. But the park itself is host to herds of deer, and its noble avenues of trees, its spring daffodils and its huge expanses of grass have long made it a favourite haunt of the people and animals of South London looking for fresh air and open spaces. Rising above the trees at the centre is the great dome of the Royal Observatory, home to the Prime Meridian Line, and world famous in the annals of navigation and timekeeping. To the south lie the open level spaces of Blackheath, for 600 years a rallying point for large groups including Wat Tyler's band at the time of the Peasant's Revolt in 1381, but now more notable as the starting point of the London Marathon.
This collection of outstanding photographs capture the magic of the park through the year, and the thoughtful, well informed text highlights its many notable and remarkable features.
- ISBN10 0711226644
- ISBN13 9780711226647
- Publish Date 1 October 2007
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 15 June 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 112
- Language English