Hyde Park is a 630 acre-park located in
London,
England. The land was acquired by
Henry VIII in
1536 from the monks of Westminster Abbey. The park is divided in two by the Serpentine Lake. Sites of interest in the park include Speaker's Corner (located near Marble Arch), the
Albert Memorial,
Kensington Palace[?] and Rotten Row which is the northern boundary of the site of the
Crystal Palace built by
Joseph Paxton for the
Great Exhibition of 1851.
- At Rotten Row around a tree
- With Albert's help did Mr P
- His stately pleasure dome design:
- The greatest greenhouse ever seen;
- A glass cathedral on the green,
- Beside the crystal Serpentine.
- (from 'Joseph and His Amazing Crystal Palace' by John Greatrex, parodying Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
This article erroneously includes features from Kensington Gardens - correction pending