Wormwood Scrubs
Park · White City, England
Wormwood Scrubs is rough open common on Scrubs Lane. OpenStreetMap relation 17097363 tags it as a park with a common-land designation sourced to the Defra 2015 common land register, and the polygon measures 67.7 hectares of rough grassland rather than formal planting. The Scrubs carries no registered park and garden entry on the National Heritage List. No source states its opening hours, so none are given here.
History
The adjoining HMP Wormwood Scrubs carries three entries on the National Heritage List: the gatehouse, Grade II, NHLE 1393182; the chapel, Grade II, NHLE 1393205, 56 metres from it; and the cell blocks, Grade II, NHLE 1393204, at 177 metres. The gatehouse and the chapel are two of the borough's 27 Grade II* entries, and the Former Wormholt Library and Infant Welfare Centre, Grade II, NHLE 1393177, is the other list entry within 600 metres. East Acton on the Central line is 507 metres from the prison gatehouse on TfL's measurement and White City 1,177 metres. Little Wormwood Scrubs is a separate, smaller park about 780 metres north east of the centre of the Scrubs.
Visit
Scrubs Lane, White City, London W12