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St James's Park facts for kids

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Saint James's Park is one of the oldest parks in the City of Westminster in London. It is 23 hectares (o,23 km²) large and is surrounded by buildings including two palaces: Buckingham Palace, Green Park, Queens gardens, Victoria memorial, Horse Guards, Birdcage walk. It opens every day and welcomes more than 5 million visitors per year. In the park there is a small lake called St. James's Park Lake with two islands: West island and Duck Island (a duck reserve).

Images for kids

  • St James's Park (original layout)

    André Mollet's design for the park in Charles II's time, before 18th and 19th century remodelling, which shaped a more natural-looking lake from the straight canal visible here, the eastern part of which was filled in to create Horse Guards Parade

  • St James's Park mall1745

    Fashionable people thronging St James's Park, c.1745

  • Green Park and St. James's Park London from 1833 Schmollinger map

    Green Park and St James's Park c.1833

  • Cottage Duck Island London

    Duck Island Cottage

  • Buckingham Palace viewed from St. James's park

    St James's Park Lake, looking northwest, with Buckingham Palace in the background

See also

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