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Regent's Park

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Regent's Park

Park in London, England, covering 188 ha/464 acres. It contains London Zoo. Regent's Canal runs through the park, which was laid out by John Nash for the Prince Regent, later George IV. Grand terraced residences, which overlook the park, were designed by Nash and by Decimus Burton (1800-81).

The park was developed on the site of Marylebone Gardens and pasture land. It formed part of a scheme, begun in 1812, to connect the Prince's residence (Carlton House) in the Mall, via Regent Street, with another residence (never built) in the new park. The park was opened to the public in 1838.

Bedford College (now part of Royal Holloway College) was located here 1909-85. There is an open-air theatre in the Inner Circle of the park.



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I walked across Regent's Park, and I dawdled on Primrose Hill, without the least result.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Port- land Place were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas lamps as ever there had been.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
I determined to stroll home in the purer air by the most roundabout way I could take; to follow the white winding paths across the lonely heath; and to approach London through its most open suburb by striking into the Finchley Road, and so getting back, in the cool of the new morning, by the western side of the Regent's Park.
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