Bushy Park
Bushy Park is one of the royal parks in London . It is located in the southwest of London , in the district of Richmond upon Thames .
The 4.5 km² park is located immediately north of Hampton Court Palace , a few minutes' walk from Kingston upon Thames . The park has ponds for fishing and model boats, bridle paths, flower gardens, a fern thicket with wild deer, wildlife sanctuaries, the buildings of the National Physical Laboratory and the Royal Paddocks (royal paddock).
history
The area known today as Bushy Park was settled over 4,000 years ago, as the discovery of a burial mound from the Bronze Age proves. When King . Henry VIII in the year 1529 the Hampton Court Palace by Thomas Wolsey had received a gift, even three parks came into his possession: Hare Warren, Middle Park and Bushy Park. The avid hunter let deer settle in the park.
King Charles I had the Longford River dug, a 19-kilometer canal that supplied Hampton Court Palace and the numerous ponds with water. On his behalf, Christopher Wren built a Diana Fountain and Chestnut Avenue, the main axis between the Palace and Sandy Lane in Teddington . The park was opened to the public in 1752 after Timothy Bennet, a shoemaker from Hampton Wick , was granted a right of passage.
At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, the future King William IV lived here as Duke of Clarence with his mistress, the Irish actress Dorothea Jordan and her ten illegitimate children. The couple separated in 1811. Later, Wilhelm and his wife Adelheid moved in here temporarily, who looked after his children and later also moved here as a widow.
At the end of the 19th century, the rules of modern hockey emerged in Bushy Park . During the Second World War, which was located in a building in the park Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force , where General Dwight D. Eisenhower to D-Day planning.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bushy Park - History and Architecture at: The Royal Parks, accessed March 25, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 46 ″ N , 0 ° 20 ′ 17 ″ W.