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London Zoo, previously known as ZSL London Zoo or London Zoological Gardens and sometimes called Regent's Park Zoo, is the world's oldest scientific zoo. [7] [8] It was opened in London on 27 April 1828, [9] and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study.
Regent's Park is the setting of Cruella de Vil's fashion show in Disney's live-action prequel film Cruella (2021). Regent's Park is the setting of the modern headquarters of MI5 for the spy thriller television series Slow Horses (2022). In Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Pongo is barking the alert from Regent's Park. As stated ...
The Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Regent's Park is a penguin enclosure designed in the International Modernist style by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Group. Constructed in 1934, Historic England describe it as "a key symbol of British (and International) Modern Movement architecture". The pool housed the zoo's collection of penguins for 70 years.
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Regent's Park is a London Underground station 175 metres (191 yd) south of Regent's Park.It is on the Bakerloo line between Baker Street and Oxford Circus stations. Its access is on Marylebone Road, within Park Crescent, in Travelcard Zone 1, in which zone it is the second-least used station (least-used is Lambeth North) – it saw 3.5 million entries or exits in 2015.
London was officially declared the world's first National Park City in July 2019. A National Park City is inspired by the family of National Parks but is not the same as a National Park: it is a “large urban area that is managed and semi-protected through both formal and informal means to enhance the natural capital of its living landscape ...
Readymoney Drinking Fountain in 2013. The Readymoney Drinking Fountain, also occasionally known as the Parsee Fountain, is a Grade II listed structure near the middle of the Broad Walk footpath on the east side of Regent's Park, in London.
Hyde Park 140 hectares (350 acres) [6] Kensington Gardens 107 hectares (260 acres) [7] Greenwich Park 74 hectares (180 acres) [8] St James's Park 23 hectares (57 acres) [9] The Green Park 16 hectares (40 acres) [10] Five of these parks – The Regent’s Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, and St James's Park – are situated ...