Parks and open spaces in the City of Westminster

The City of Westminster, a central London borough, has 116 parks and open spaces; these include small gardens as well as larger areas of land. The open spaces are managed by Westminster City Council and private resident and business associations. Westminster is also home to four of the Royal Parks (Hyde Park,Green Park, St. James's Park and Kensington Gardens). The Royal Parks are managed by Royal Parks.

Westminster has a selection of typical London squares and formal gardens. Among the sites are:

Brown Hart Gardens
Cavendish Square Gardens
College Garden
Golden Square
Grosvenor Square, the site of the Canadian High Commission (former US Embassy) and the current US Embassy
Hanover Square
Leicester Square
Manchester Square
Mount Street Gardens
Paddington Recreation Ground
Pimlico Gardens
Regent's Park (Partly)
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Victoria Tower Gardens (managed By Royal Parks)

The only Local Nature Reserve in the borough is St. John's Wood Church Grounds. In addition to parks and open spaces within the borough, the City owns and maintains East Finchley Cemetery in the London Borough of Barnet.

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City of Westminster Parks and Recreation

City of Westminster

Districts	Aldwych Bayswater Belgravia Covent Garden Fitzrovia Hyde Park Kilburn Knightsbridge Lisson Grove Maida Vale including Little Venice Marylebone Mayfair Millbank Paddington Paddington Green Pimlico Queen's Park St James's St John's Wood Soho including Chinatown Victoria Westbourne Green Westminster

Attractions	Buckingham Palace Horse Guards National Gallery Tate Britain Trafalgar Square West End theatre Westminster Abbey

Parks and open spaces	Green Park Hyde Park Kensington Gardens Regent's Park St James's Park

Constituencies	Cities of London and Westminster Westminster North

Local government	Borough council Local elections 2010 2014

Bridges	Chelsea Bridge Grosvenor Bridge Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges Lambeth Bridge Vauxhall Bridge Waterloo Bridge Westminster Bridge

Rail and tube stations	Baker Street Bayswater Bond Street Charing Cross Edgware Road (Bakerloo line) Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines) Embankment Great Portland Street Green Park Hyde Park Corner Lancaster Gate Leicester Square Maida Vale Marble Arch Marylebone Oxford Circus Paddington Piccadilly Circus Pimlico Queensway Regent's Park Royal Oak St. James's Park St. John's Wood Temple Tottenham Court Road Victoria Warwick Avenue Westbourne Park Westminster

Art and architecture	Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings 1–9 A–Z Public art Hyde Park Paddington St Marylebone architectural sculpture

Other topics	Blue plaques People from the City of Westminster Schools

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Parks and open spaces in London

Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's

Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead West Ham Wimbledon

Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Bedfont Lakes Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent

Commons	Barnes Blackheath Bostall Heath Clapham Ealing East Sheen Hackney Marsh Hainault Forest Ham Hampstead Heath Hayes Keston Mitcham Monken Hadley Peckham Rye Plumstead Stanmore Streatham Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon and Putney Winn's Woolwich Wormwood Scrubs

Marshes & Wetlands	Aveley Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham Tottenham Walthamstow Wennington Woodberry Wetlands WWT London Wetland Centre

Woodland	Bostall Coldfall Copse Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Mad Bess Old Park Oxleas Park Petts Queen's Russia Dock Sydenham Hill

House gardens	Belair Park Boston Manor Park Broomfield House Cannizaro Park Chiswick House Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Gunnersbury Park Hampton Court Park Hillingdon Court Kenwood House Langtons Manor House Gardens Marble Hill Park Morden Hall Park Morden Park Osterley Park Syon House Valence House Museum Walpole Park

Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre

Community gardens	Phoenix Garden Calthorpe Project

Parks and open spaces by London borough

Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth City of Westminster

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