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{{Short description|Park in South London, England, UK}}
{{about|Hampton Court Park or Home Park, London||Home Park (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:HamptonCourtFromLongWater.jpg|thumb|[[Hampton Court]], from the park]]
'''Hampton Court Park''', adjacentalso toknown [[Hamptonas Court'''Home Palace]] and Gardens in [[South London]], [[England]]Park''', is a walled royal park managed by the [[Historic Royal Palaces]].<ref name="Richmond Borough Council">[http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/leisure_and_culture/parks_and_open_spaces/park_details.htm?parkId=268 Richmond Borough Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826172424/http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/leisure_and_culture/parks_and_open_spaces/park_details.htm?parkId=268 |date=2015-08-26 }}</ref> The park lies between the gardens of [[Hampton Court Palace]] and [[Kingston upon Thames]] and [[Surbiton]] in south west London, [[England]], mostly within the [[post town]] of [[East Molesey]], but with its eastern extremity within the post town of Kingston. In 2014, part of itthe park was designated a biological [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] together (with [[Bushy Park]] and Hampton Court Golf Course). It takes up most of the final (lowest) meander of the non-tidal reaches of the [[River Thames]] and is mainly divided between a golf course, meadows interspersed with trees used for deer, seasonal horse grazing and wildlife. A corner of the park is used annually for the Hampton Court Flower Show and the part nearest to the palace has the Long Water &mdash; an early set of hydro-engineered ponds or lakes, fed by water from the distant [[River Colne, Hertfordshire|River Colne]], as are the bodies of water in the neighbouring park, [[Bushy Park]].<ref name =SSSI>{{cite web|url= http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/sssi/images/uploaded_files/Bushy%20Park%20and%20Home%20Park%20SSSI%20notification%20document%205%20Sept%202014.pdf|title= Bushy Park and Home Park citation|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher= Natural England|accessdateaccess-date= 8 December 2014|archive-date= 17 January 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150117084942/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/sssi/images/uploaded_files/Bushy%20Park%20and%20Home%20Park%20SSSI%20notification%20document%205%20Sept%202014.pdf|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%272000738%27|title=Map of Bushy Park and Home Park|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|accessdateaccess-date= 8 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bushy Park and Home Park Unit List|url=http://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteUnitList.aspx?SiteCode=S2000738&SiteName=bushy&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|accessdateaccess-date= 13 December 2014}}</ref>
 
==Location==
It is a walled [[Medieval deer park|deer park]] of around {{convert|700|acre|ha|-1}}, with a herd of [[fallow deer]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fbhp.org.uk/home-park/introduction.html.php |title=Home Park |accessdate=2016-01-11}}</ref> and has been open to the public since 1894. The [[A308 road]] and the [[River Thames]] form its boundaries. North of the A308 is [[Bushy Park]]. The [[Royal Mews]] still graze some of their horses on the park in the summer.
=== Plant and animal life ===
Hampton Court Park is a walled [[Medieval deer park|deer park]] of around {{convert|700|acre|ha|-1}} (1.1&nbsp;sq mi), with a herd of [[fallow deer]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fbhp.org.uk/home-park/introduction.html.php |title=Home Park |access-date=2016-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222220653/http://www.fbhp.org.uk/home-park/introduction.html.php |archive-date=2016-02-22 }}</ref> and has been open to the public since 1894. Verges by the [[A308 road]] lightly scattered with deciduous trees line the northern wall. These trees, with few evergreens, continue across much of the park. There are three [[Avenue (landscape)|avenues]] of [[Tilia|lime trees]] that radiate across the park in a [[Broad arrow|crow's foot]] pattern from Hampton Court Gardens. One runs north-eastwards towards [[Kingston upon Thames|Kingston]]; one runs south-eastwards towards [[Long Ditton|Ditton]]; and the third runs eastwards and includes the Long Water lake.
 
[[Cardinal Wolsey]] enclosed with a wall about {{cvt|2000|acres|-2}} to form this park and Bushy Park for the establishment of an exceptionally grand house over the former manor house of Hampton. It formed what became before his death [[Hampton Court Palace]], taken over by [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]. The king was an avid hunter and had the park used for breeding rabbits and/or hares, pheasants and partridges.<ref name=vch>'Spelthorne Hundred: Hampton Court Palace, parks', in ''[[Victoria County History|A History of the County of Middlesex]]'': Volume 2, General; ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 386-388. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp386-388</ref>
The Long Water runs roughly eastward from the back of Hampton Court Palace and at the eastern end is the Golden Jubilee Fountain.
 
The inventory of Cromwell's goods made in 1659 records "about 700 deer", compared to "about 1,700" and "about 30 red deer" in Bushy Park.<ref name=vch/>
==Flower Show==▼
{{main|Hampton Court Palace Flower Show}}▼
The annual '''Hampton Court Flower Show''' is held in {{convert|25|acre|ha}} of the Home Park. It is organized by the [[Royal Horticultural Society]] and began in 1990. Many prefer it to the better known [[Chelsea Flower Show]] because there is more space, and plants and equipment can be bought at the show. As it is the world's most popular event of this type extensive traffic jams can build up. The show has sometimes been criticized for risking damage to historic features in the park.▼
 
== The= Mediaeval Oak ===
 
[[File:Mediaeval Oak.jpg|thumb|The Mediaeval Oak – said to be 750 years old]]
 
A tree, called the Mediaeval Oak (or Methuselah's Oak), in one of the tees for the golf course in the southern part of the park, is said to be 750 years old.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 
=== Drained water meadow since medieval period ===
{{See also|Longford River|Upper Lodge Water Gardens}}
The public towpath by the lowest part of the non-tidal [[River Thames|Thames]] above [[Teddington Lock]] lies in all other directions apart from the palace (west). An emergency conditions [[flood meadow]] but not a lowered "Flood Storage Area" most of it is in planning (policy Flood Zone 2 or 3, and mostly in long term flood risk zones ranging across its four categories (very low to high risk)<ref>[http://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/confirm-location?easting=517000&northing=168000 Flood Map for Planning Service] UK Government, 2018</ref><ref>[http://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk/map?easting=517000&northing=168000 Long Term Flood Risk] UK Government, 2018</ref> High risk, affecting a small portion means that each year this area has a chance of flooding of greater than 3.3%.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 
North of the road and a cluster of houses connected with the parks is a narrow set of Paddocks and [[Bushy Park]];<ref name=vch/> the [[Royal Mews]] graze horses on the park in the summer.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 
The Long Water is a large [[Canal (garden history)|garden canal]] constructed by Charles II, and given a curved extension at the palace end by William III. It is now the namesake of a lake of the 1730s in [[Kensington Gardens]] (see [[The Long Water]]), and indeed other large garden canals at [[Wrest Park]] and elsewhere. It flows gently in the park roughly eastward from the back of Hampton Court Palace ending at the Golden Jubilee Fountain and is underground connected to a landscaped channel, the [[Longford River]] after the [[Upper Lodge Water Gardens]] and the [[Diana Fountain, Bushy Park]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 
▲==Flower Show==
▲{{main article|Hampton Court Palace Flower Show}}
▲The annual '''Hampton Court Flower Show''' is held in {{convert|25|acre|ha}} of the Home Parkpark. It is organized by the [[Royal Horticultural Society]] and began in 1990. Many prefer it to the better known [[Chelsea Flower Show]] because there is more space, and plants and equipment can be bought at the show. As it is the world's most popular event {{Citation needed|date=December 2017}} of this type extensive traffic jams can build up. The show has sometimes been criticized for risking damage to historic features in the park.
 
==See also==
*[[List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater London]]
 
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*{{official|https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/whats-on/home-park-and-the-long-water/}}
*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/hamptoncourt/ Hampton Court Flower Show]
*[http://www.fbhp.org.uk/ Friends of Bushy & Home Parks]
*[http://www.quantumtiger.org/image110.htm Photograph of the Jubilee Fountain]
 
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