What is the oldest tree in Hyde Park?

This 900-year-old tree stump is carved with elves, gnomes, witches and small creatures. One of the photos in the gate-fold of the Pink Floyd album Ummagumma has lead singer David Gilmour standing in front of the Elfin Oak.



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One of London's hidden gems and often called the oldest tree in Hyde Park, The Elfin Oak is an ingenious sculpture made in 1930 from the hollow log of a 900-year-old oak tree.

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The Hyde Park Cemetery Tree Trail
  • Common Lime. A tall, deciduous, broadleaf tree, the Common Lime is native to the UK and parts of Europe. ...
  • Robinia. The Robinia is native to North America and Northern Mexico and can grow up to 25 metres tall. ...
  • Yew. ...
  • Common Hawthorn. ...
  • Sycamore. ...
  • London Plane. ...
  • Lombardy Poplar. ...
  • Common Ash.


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Free speech and demonstrations have been a key feature of Hyde Park since the 19th century. Speakers' Corner has been established as a point of free speech and debate since 1872, while the Chartists, the Reform League, the suffragettes, and the Stop the War Coalition have all held protests there.

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Settlement of the region by Europeans officially began around 1742 but may have begun as early as 1710. The name of the area was changed to Hyde Park around 1810.

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What is Hyde Park famous for? Hyde Park is famous for its speaker's corner and for being the largest park in the central park & the royal parks of London.

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The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site preserves the Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York, United States. Springwood was the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Tour professional Billy Maxwell purchased Hyde Park in 1971. Today, Hyde Park is owned by Billy's daughter and husband, Melanie and Tommy Bevill, who have worked since 2016 to bring the course back to it's former glory days.

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Though Hyde Park is safer area compared to the nearby, needless to say, you should be careful not to walk alone in the nighttime. There are some pretty good restaurants nearby, but of course Hyde Park isn't as fun as downtown.

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The road became known as the Road of the King, or Route du Roi in French. It is believed to be a corruption of this term that led to its present name of 'Rotten Row'.

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Central Park. Central Park, probably the world's most famous park, is more than double the size of Hyde Park, at 3.41km2 to Hyde Park's 1.42km2 (that's without including Kensington Gardens). It also has its own zoo — and yes, two of London's parks also have zoos, but Hyde Park isn't one of them.

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