{"id":10543,"date":"2014-04-03T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10543"},"modified":"2014-04-03T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:43:10","slug":"londons-royal-parks-greenway-should-have-the-lost-garden-of-whitehall-as-a-link-to-the-south-banks-thames-greenway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/londons-royal-parks-greenway-should-have-the-lost-garden-of-whitehall-as-a-link-to-the-south-banks-thames-greenway\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#039;s Royal Parks Greenway should have the Lost Garden of Whitehall as a link to the South Bank&#039;s Thames Greenway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"560\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5u3vNEg_suI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nLondon has two excellent greenways: one of them was planned by Henry VIII and runs through the Royal Parks. The other was planned by a landscape architect (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/biography\/patrick_abercrombie\">Sir Patrick Abercrombie<\/a>) and runs on the South Bank of the River Thames from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge. The video explains the histories of the routes and how the Lost Garden of Whitehall Palace could and should be a link between the two greenways.<br \/>\nLondon&#8217;s geography is confusing for the pedestrian and the cyclist. A 6-mile London Greenway, running from Kensington Palace to Tower Bridge would  create a great east-west spatial corridor, &#8216;green&#8217; in the sense of environmentally wonderful and a &#8216;way&#8217; in the sense of a traffic-free pedestrian concourse passing near many of London&#8217;s best tourist attractions: the Tower of London, the Globe Theatre, Tate Britain, St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the Lost Garden of Whitehall Palace, St James&#8217;s Park, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Kensington Palace and Gardens.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_10552\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lost_garden_whitehall_palace_London_greenway_link.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lost_garden_whitehall_palace_London_greenway_link.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Garden Whitehall Palace\" width=\"775\" height=\"436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lost_garden_whitehall_palace_London_greenway_link.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lost_garden_whitehall_palace_London_greenway_link-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lost_garden_whitehall_palace_London_greenway_link-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lost_garden_whitehall_palace_London_greenway_link-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitehall Palace&#8217;s Lost Garden could link the Royal Parks Greenway to the London Thames Greenway<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe Ministry of Defense (the building on the right in the photograph below) occupies the site of the main buildings of Henry VIII&#8217;s Whitehall Palace. The architect preserved a fragment of Queen Mary&#8217;s Stairs and the Ministry kindly allow public access to what was Queen Mary&#8217;s Garden. We could admire them even more if the parterre&#8217;s shown on Knyff&#8217;s drawing of the garden were to be restored. Sadly but understandably, the Ministry keeps <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:King_Henry_the_VIII%27s_Wine_Cellar_Underneath_the_MoD_Main_Building_in_London_MOD_45152145.jpg\">Henry VIII&#8217;s Whitehall Palace Wine Cellar<\/a> for private use.<div id=\"attachment_10555\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whitehall_knyff_queen_marys_garden3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whitehall_knyff_queen_marys_garden3.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Mary&#039;s lost Whitehall Palace Garden\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whitehall_knyff_queen_marys_garden3.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whitehall_knyff_queen_marys_garden3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whitehall_knyff_queen_marys_garden3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whitehall_knyff_queen_marys_garden3-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Mary&#8217;s lost Whitehall Palace Garden<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London has two excellent greenways: one of them was planned by Henry VIII and runs through the Royal Parks. The other was planned by a landscape architect (Sir Patrick Abercrombie) and runs on the South Bank of the River Thames from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge. The video explains the histories of the routes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}