Horn Park | |
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Type | Public park |
Location | Horn Park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°26′35″N 0°01′34″E / 51.443°N 0.026°E |
Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
Created | c.1940s |
Owned by | Royal Borough of Greenwich |
Open | 06:00-20:00 or 24 hours |
Status | Open all year |
Awards | Green Flag Award 2012-2021 |
Public transit access | buses: 273, B15, 160, 261, Lee railway station |
Website | Horn Park at www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk |
Horn Park is a 16 acres (6.5 ha) public park within Horn Park in the Eltham area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, southeast London, United Kingdom. It has a mixture of grassland and woodland, children's playground, football pitch, outdoor gym and the first skate park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Historically Horn Park was one of three deer hunting parks belonging to Eltham Palace, over the centuries it was also used as grazing farmland and a fruit orchard. The park today is some of the last remaining open space of the original park, a public park next to the Horn Park housing estate which was completed just after the Second World War.