The site has a long and rich history. It was settled as early as the Bronze Age and includes remnants of medieval field systems, a Tudor deer park, early 18th-century Baroque water gardens, and WWII military camps. Until the early 16th century, Bushy Park was farmland. You can still see medieval ridge and furrow farm fields between the Woodland Garden and Lime Avenue, bounded by the remains of hawthorn hedges. A medieval ditch runs beside the Woodland Garden.
In the late medieval period, rabbits were raised in the park and you can still see traces of artificial rabbit warrens in Warren Plantation north of the Diana Fountain. Cardinal Wolsey enclosed the medieval fields when he built Hampton Court Palace to the south. Henry VIII built a high brick wall to enclose the park and create a deer chase for sport.
It was left to Charles I to make the most of the site. Hampton Court Palace suffered from a chronic lack of water, and Charles was inspired to suggest that an artificial river in the park might make a suitable catchment for water to supply the palace.
Nicholas Lane took on the task of creating the artificial river , a canal that stretches for over 19 km from the River Colne in Hertfordshire. Longford River took 9 months to create and was built entirely by hand at a total cost of over pounds.
We've mentioned Wren's chestnut avenue; this mile-long row of trees provides a formal approach to William and Mary's palace at Hampton Court.
The single row of chestnuts is bounded by four rows of lime trees. You can best appreciate the Chestnut Avenue from Teddington Gate to the north, where you can see how the avenue leads to Bushy Park's most famous landmark, the Diana Fountain.
The Diana Fountain is a striking bronze statue of a Greek goddess atop an ornate base of marble and stone. The gleaming golden figure of the goddess is surrounded by four cherubic boys, four shells, and four water nymphs, and rises from the centre of a very large circular pond. The pond is set at the junction of Chestnut Avenue to the north and Lime Avenue to the south.
The Diana Fountain was designed in by sculptor Hubert le Sueur. He paid the sculptor pounds for the finished work. The goddess figure stands 2. During restoration in , a stone was discovered at the statue's base, inscribed with the initials AR for Anne Regis and the date The stone, also carved with the symbol of a crown, marks the date when the fountain and statue were installed in Bushy Park.
The fountain's popular name is misleading; it does not depict the goddess Diana. The figure does not appear to represent any particular goddess, though it is sometimes said to be Arethusa, a Greek nymph linked to a natural spring on the island of Ortygia, near Syracuse. Arethusa is sometimes said to be Diana's nymph.
One of the most recent additions to Bushy Park's list of things to do is also one of the oldest. An early 18th-century set of Baroque water gardens in the north-western corner of the park were lost beneath centuries of overgrowth and silt until a recent major restoration programme returned them to their former glory.
The water gardens were created from by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, as a private recreational garden. The Upper Lodge Water gardens comprise of a Baroque-style collection of pools, cascades, basins and a canal.
Open dawn until dusk. The Water Gardens are open from am until dusk every day except Mondays Bank Holidays excepted, when the gardens will be closed on Tuesdays. See location on Google maps. Map reference: TQ Lat: Bus: , , , X26, R68, R70, and summer Sundays only. For further information visit www. Food and Drink. Bushy Park work Park With an area of hectares 1, acres. If so please let us know here. The views expressed in the social media feeds we link to from GoParksLondon are solely those of the authors and we cannot be held responsible for the views expressed in those feeds.
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See About. Explore the historic, wild, landscape and view the two herds of deer, here since Henry VIII's time, but from a safe distance as they are wild animals 50 metres recommended. Visit the Woodland Gardens, the part of the park which has been created as ornamental gardens and provides a tranquil path with water courses and colourful seasonal displays of shrubs and plants.
Visit the Water Gardens, a historic setting restored to its original 18th Century design. Visit the Pheasantry cafe at the entrance to the Woodland Gardens for excellent food and a place to rest.
Explore the Visitor Centre at the entrance to the Woodland Gardens, open at weekends and public holidays, where the volunteers fro the Friends of the park can inform you about the secrets of the park.
Deer Park. This park overlaps with an area called Bushy Park and Home Park noted for its nature and wildlife value. Information supplied with kind permission, collected via research volunteers. Bushy Park formed www. Friends of Bushy and Home Parks. Where is this?
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