Victoria Park

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  • Address
    Grove Rd, Bow, E3
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Mile End

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Lonely Planet review

If you want a little more green than Mile End Park affords, head north from Mile End tube along Grove Rd, until you reach 87-hectare Victoria Park. This leafy expanse has lakes, fountains, a bowling green, tennis courts, a deer park and much more. It was the East End's first public park when it opened in 1845 and came about after a local MP presented Queen Victoria with a petition of 30,000 signatures.

During WWII the park was largely closed to the public and was used as an anti-aircraft shelling site as well as an interment camp for Italian and then German prisoners of war.