Opis:
Two royal parks and Britain's finest surviving Tudor building.
This walk explores the two royal parks next to Hampton Court Palace, with the opportunity to spend time at the end in the palace grounds. After a short stretch past the palace on the Thames Path the walk enters Home Park, the local name for Hampton Court Park. It was originally enclosed as a hunting ground for HenryⅧ and still contains a herd of fallow deer, but its appearance has changed significantly since Tudor times. The Long Water was added by CharlesⅠ and the three lime tree avenues by WilliamⅢ & MaryⅡ, completing its transformation into parkland typical of the 17thC baroque period.