The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London, and forms part of Inner London. Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough....

, an Inner London borough

London borough

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, has a total of 231 hectares of parks and open spaces that are accessible to the general public. 159 hectares of this is within parks and 52.5 hectares are within cemeteries and churchyards. Wormwood Scrubs

Wormwood Scrubs

Wormwood Scrubs, known locally as The Scrubs, is an open space located in the north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London. It is the largest open space in the Borough, at 80 ha , and one of the largest areas of common land in London...

 and Scrubs Wood, located in the north of the Borough account for 42 hectares and Fulham Palace and Bishop's Park grounds contain another 14 hectares of open space. Private open space includes Hurlingham

Hurlingham Club

The Hurlingham Club is an exclusive sports club in Fulham in southwest London, England. The club, founded in 1869, is situated by the River Thames in Fulham, West London, and has a Georgian clubhouse set in of grounds...

, Fulham

Fulham

Fulham is an area of southwest London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, SW6 located south west of Charing Cross. It lies on the left bank of the Thames, between Putney and Chelsea. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London...

 and Queen's Club

Queen's Club

The Queen's Club is a private sporting club in West Kensington, London, England. Founded in 1886, the Queen's Club was the world's first multipurpose sports complex and named after Queen Victoria, its first patron...

 in West Kensington

West Kensington, London

- Commercial/education :Local business consists of small shops, offices and restaurants, with the Olympia Exhibition Centre nearby. Indeed, it is the mix of local shops that give the area its character....

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The main areas of open space in the Borough are:

• Bishops Park
  Bishop's Park (Fulham)
  Bishops Park is a park in Fulham, south-west London. The park was opened by the London County Council in 1893, on land given by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners...
  
  , Fulham
• Brook Green
  Brook Green
  Brook Green is an affluent London neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located approx west of Charing Cross. It is bordered by Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Holland Park and Brackenbury Village....
  
  
• Hammersmith Cemetery
• Hurlingham Park
• Eel Brook Common
  Eel Brook Common
  Eel Brook Common is a park in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, close to Fulham Broadway tube station], and its southern boundary on New Kings Road, Chelsea. It is not particularly remarkable, but for the fact that in 1883 and 1891 a then local amateur football team, Fulham F.C., played...
  
  
• Furnival Gardens
• Norland North open space, Shepherd's Bush
• Parsons Green
  Parsons Green (park)
  Parsons Green is a park in the Parsons Green area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is triangular, and on the northernmost corner is a tube station of the same name. It annually holds a 'Fair on the Green' to raise money and have fun. The Green hosted Fulham F.C.'s home games...
  
  
• Ravenscourt Park
  Ravenscourt Park
  This article is about the public park. For the London Underground station of this name see Ravenscourt Park tube station and for the Electoral Division see Ravenscourt Park ...
  
  
• St Mary's RC Cemetery, College Park
  College Park
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• St Paul's Green, Hammersmith
  Hammersmith
  Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
  
  
• Shepherd's Bush
  Shepherd's Bush
  -Commerce:Commercial activity in Shepherd's Bush is now focused on the Westfield shopping centre next to Shepherd's Bush Central line station and on the many small shops which run along the northern side of the Green....
  
   Common
• South Park, Fulham, SW6
  South Park, Fulham, SW6
  South Park is a 7.9 hectare park in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. South Park contains a public cricket pitch, tennis courts, football pitches, netball and basketball courts. In addition there is a large children's playground fenced off from the main park and a 1 km...
  
  
• Wendell Park
• Wormholt Park
• Wormwood Scrubs
  Wormwood Scrubs
  Wormwood Scrubs, known locally as The Scrubs, is an open space located in the north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London. It is the largest open space in the Borough, at 80 ha , and one of the largest areas of common land in London...
  
   and Little Wormwood Scrubs
  Little Wormwood Scrubs
  Little Wormwood Scrubs is a park in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally part of Wormwood Scrubs, and separated in the 1840s when the railway embankment of the West London Line was built....
  
  

and two Thames

River Thames

The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...

riverside developments, under creation at:

• Imperial Wharf, Fulham
• Hammersmith Embankment

External links

• Hammersmith & fulham parks and open space: notes