Mayfair – Marylebone – Regent’s Park – Primrose Hill

Was: Sunday 14th April 2024, 1pm

Pink cherries, golden gates – Chester Road, the Regent’s Park

Latest walk … We explored the grand and celebrated squares and parks of Central London. With spring in the air the trees and flowers were bursting with life as we meandered through Mayfair, Regent’s Park and up Primrose Hill.

Palm tree, sun in front, sun behind, Mount Street Gardens, Westminster

Route

Mayfair section

• Green Park
• Berkeley Square
• Mount Street Gardens
• Grosvenor Square
• Portman Square

Marylebone section

• Manchester Square
• Paddington Street Gardens
• Wesley Garden
• St. Marylebone Parish Church Gardens
• Park Square and Crescent Gardens

Regent’s Park section

• We met our guide to Regent’s Park
• Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians,
• St John’s Garden
• and Queen Mary’s Rose Garden.
• Saw wart-hogs at the back of London Zoo
• crossed Regent’s Canal
• then climbed Primrose Hill for a view of London.

Meeting place: Green Park tube station, south side at gateway to Green Park
Take the tube: Jubilee, Victoria, Piccadilly lines
Date & time: Sunday April 14th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4.9 miles
End point: Primrose Hill
Map: Google map, Komoot map, click to view
Contact: email: tim.ingram-smith@virgin.net   mobile: 077932 00932
Cost: £8 per adult walker in advance, £12 on the day

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Gallery

Diana of the Treetops Fountain in Green Park

Embrace the wall garden on Berkeley Street

Berkeley Square, statue by Alexandra Munro, a Scottish sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite movement

POP – by Isabel Langtry, principal of Hampstead School of Art

Pop fans

Berkeley Square Gardens bowl featuring red maple and pink tulips

Spring flower bed in Mount Street Garden

Portman Square

Manchester Square

Paddington Street Gardens

Marylebone Elm, photo by Gina

Tulip Tree in Park Square garden

Hippocrates’ plane tree, which stands in the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians; taken from a cutting of the parent tree in Cyprus

Chester Road cherry blossom, the Regent’s Park

Hylas and the Nymph fountain, St John’s Garden, Regent’s Park

St John’s Garden, Regent’s Park

The group surveys a rare Elm tree in a wild area of Regent’s Park

Daffodils, Regent’s Park

Football in Regent’s Park

Regent’s Park outer circle west

Royal Parks made some nice videos showing off their parks, and a new garden is coming…

Climb to the top of Primrose Hill

View from Primrose Hill

Map

Map: Google map, Komoot map – click to view

Mount Street Gardens, five photos by Gina, and one of Gina by Gail

This Walk

Sunday 14th April 2024 Mayfair to Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill

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