The second largest of London's royal parks (behind Richmond Park), Bushy Park covers approximately 445 hectares. It was one of Henry VIII's favourite hunting grounds and wild herds of red and fallow deer still roam. The park features the Longford River canal, the Diana Fountain, Chestnut Avenue and many ponds.
Epsom Downs Racecourse
Epsom Downs is best known as the home of the Epsom Downs Racecourse and the prestigious Epsom Derby horse race.
Richmond Park
Richmond Park is the largest of London's eight royal parks. Covering 2,500 acres, it's also the capital's largest Site of Special Scientific Interest and a designated nature reserve that boasts ancient woods, rolling hills and open grasslands.
Nonsuch Park and Warren Farm
Nonsuch Park is a large open leisure space with an extensive network of surfaced and unsurfaced paths. It is home to a variety of different species of flowers, birds and insects. Situated in its centre is the grade II-listed Nonsuch Mansion, which was built in the mid-eighteenth century and extended at the beginning of the nineteenth in Tudor Gothic style. The park was once home to the very grand Nonsuch Palace built by Henry VIII in 1538, but this was demolished in 1682.
Horton Country Park
Between Epsom, Ewell and Chessington, Horton Country Park is a local nature reserve covering 150 hectares, parts of which are used as a golf course, a children’s adventure farm (Hobbledown) and an equestrian centre. It’s a patchwork of fields, hedgerows, woods and ponds and considered to be of great wildlife and historical interest.