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Walpole Park

Park · Ealing, England

Walpole Park is entered from Mattock Lane, W5 5EQ, and was Soane's garden at Pitzhanger Manor. It is a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1000847, registered in 1987 over 12.33 hectares at national grid reference TQ 17397 80242. It holds two ponds, the Rickyard learning centre and a cafe, and it hosts the annual Ealing Beer Festival, Comedy Festival, Blues Festival and Jazz Festival. No source states its opening hours, so none are given here.

History

The park opened to the public for the first time on 1 May 1901. The bridge at its northern end is listed Grade II*, NHLE 1079351; a bench at the northern end, NHLE 1079352, and the north boundary wall, NHLE 1358810, are Grade II. It was restored from August 2013 and reopened fully in the summer of 2014, when the ornamental lake was replaced by two ponds, and the Rickyard and cafe opened in 2015. It is one of three registered parks and gardens whose registered area falls inside the borough, alongside the City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell, NHLE 1001543, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Cemetery, Hanwell, NHLE 1001544, both Grade II and both registered in 2001.

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Mattock Lane, Ealing, London W5 5EQ

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