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Parks & gardens · Westminster

St James's Park

St James's Park is a designed landscape in Westminster, London, entered at Grade I on the national Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

St James's Park, a park in London
St James's Park, photographed as a park and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Ugo Cuesta · CC-BY-SA-3.0

Good for

  • Outdoor day — Open ground that can be walked without a ticket or a plan. It is in this corpus as on the national Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest at Grade I.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by Historic England.
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "St James's Park"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of listing scope and case, not a rename.
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier Historic England gives this record in Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. Read from the response, never transcribed.
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "Registered park or garden".
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
London borough, by point-in-polygon against ons boundaries.

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record 1000483 of Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest, retrieved 2026-09-08.

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