St James's Park

St James's Park is at the heart of London. It is the setting for spectacular pageants, like Trooping the Colour, also  bounded by some of the country's most notable landmarks together with castle, Clarence House, St James's Palace and Westminster.

St James's Park has been at the centre for more than four hundred years. Royal and national events have shaped several of the options in the park.Every year lots of Londoners and tourists visit St James's Park, the oldest of the capital's eight Royal Parks.

The park has The Mall and Horse Guards Parade and is at the heart of London, allowing the setting for spectacular pageants including the annual Trooping the colour.

St James's Park is the oldest Park in London and is bound by 3 palaces. The most ancient is Westminster, which has currently become the homes of Parliament, St James's Palace and the well known, Buckingham Palace.

The park was once a marshy water hayfield. In the thirteenth century hospital was founded a leper hospital. In 1532 Henry VIII acquired the location up to now another cervix park and engineered the Palace of St James's. When Elizabeth I came to the throne she indulged her love of pageantry and elegance, and fates of all kinds were control within the park. Her successor, James I, controlled the water by improving the drainage. A road was created in front of St James's Palace, approximately wherever the Mall is nowadays, but it was Charles II World Health Organization created dramatic changes. The park got redesigned, with avenues of trees planted and lawns laid. The King decided to open the park to the public and was a frequent visitor, and use to enjoy feeding the ducks and mingling with his subjects.

During the Hanoverian amount, Horse Guards filling in one end of the long canal Parade used to be created and was used 1st as a mustering ground and later for parades. Horse Guards Parade is still a part of St James's Park. The park changed forever once John writer redesigned it in a a lot of romantic vogue. The canal was changed into a natural-looking lake and in 1837 the zoological science Society of London conferred some birds to the park and erected a bungalow for a bird keeper. Both the bungalow and the position of bird keeper stay to the present day. rig House was designed for the Duke of Clarence, later to become William IV and was also the house of the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.