Holland Park

Holland Park is the smallest of London’s parks but an extremely elegant and pretty green space appropriate for this part of London.  It stretches from Holland Park in the north to Kensington High Street in the south.  Holland Park was originally  the grounds of the Jacobean Holland House, named after Sir Henry, Earl of Holland.  The grounds of the Holland Estate at one point encompassed 500 acres, running from Holland Park W11 down to Fulham, SW6.  The house was bomb damanged in World War II and now only portions of the original house remain.  Some of which now houses Marco Pierre White’s restaurant “The Belvedere”.

Holland Park features a formal north lawn which is ideal for picnics and lazy days in the sun.  There are playing fields in the south for team games such as football and facilities for golf and tennis.  The Kyoto Chamber of Commerce donated the beautiful Japanese ornamental gardens in 1991.   There are two playgrounds, one for toddlers and another for older children.  Also a playgroup, Wildlife and Ecology Centres and a cafeteria.  In the summer, the park is the home of the Holland Park Opera.

Much of the surrounding property which runs alongside the park, notably on Abbotsbury and Melbury Roads, is owned by the Ilchester Estate, one of the four largest private estates in London, alongside the Grosvenor and Cadogan Estates.

To find out more about flats and houses for sale and to rent in Holland Park, or flats and houses for sale and to rent in Notting Hill, please call Beaney Pearce Notting Hill on 020 7221 9044.

With thanks to The London Encyclopaedia.