Brockwell Park

This park is a wonderful place for a walk. From its massive open green spaces to the secret gardens and lakes it is quite diverse within a relatively small area.
My favourite part is the secret garden area with its little paths and benches and bushes. It looks like something out of a Victorian novel and it’s beautiful all year round.
I am also a big fan of the little lakes inside the park. They are full of different kinds of ducks and geese and way too many seagulls that are always fun to look at.
While there I also had the chance to meet someone from the local community, who told me they put up regular events, fares, markets and all kinds of fun things that are worth keeping an eye out for.
Coupled together with the lovely little places around Herne Hill it’s a great place to go for a weekend day out whether alone or with family and friends.

I remember sitting here looking at the view of London considering whether to move to the area — and easily decided I should.
There’s a great view of London from the hills, and there’s also a lot of features to the park that make it endlessly interesting — the secret walled gardens, the BMX tracks, the Lido, the pond, morning jogging teams, tennis courts, and even tiny trains for kids.

I love this park: the Lido, the playground (kids go literally mad there), the café… Perfect for a walk anytime of the year. A piece of peace in the busy neighbourhood!

Perfect place to walk my doggy and go for picnics. It’s very close to Herne Hill Station where, if you turn up on a Sunday, they have an awesome farmers market. You can pick up some strong cider and some good cheese and go and sit in the park and have a jolly old time.
Although at this present time I only walk my dog there, it has a lot more to offer — a lido (if you’re brave enough). playgrounds, tennis courts, café’s, a tiny train, oh and toilets!
We’ve also been to evening outdoor screenings of Ghibli movies there, what more could you want. :)

Brockwell park is amazing. There is so much to see and do especially if the weather is nice. I love the sand and water area or rather my son does. He can spend hours there. The playground is also fantastic and we love visiting the lake with its ducks. The cafés are also lovely. The one nearest to the sand and water area is on top of the hill with lovely views. The one in the lido is a much better café with a better quality of food but a little bit pricier.
Overall a brilliant day out especially if you have kids or even if you don’t.

Lots of great features for kids but keep in mind that it gets crowded at weekends. It’s a great place to run but make sure you are going early in the morning, the feeling is just great really quiet and relaxing. I absolutely love it.

The actual garden space of my flat is a) off limits to me, and b) …carefree, to be euphemistic. But having the acres and acres of green space Brockwell Park offers makes up for it manyfold. Child-​friendly, dog-​friendly, family-​friendly, people-​friendly.
Things that prove Brockwell Park could never exist in the US:
— The Lido café will sell you warm and/​or alcoholic beverages for your stroll.
— A massive, complicated, potentially hazardous playground. This is a good thing.
— A BMX track, where I watched a tiny girl peddle her pink bicycle around.
— A fitness circuit.
— A bowling green. If you’re there when the guy with the key is there (most weekends), you can bowl too!
— A giant conker sculpture.
That’s not even mentioning the Lido and pool (crazy crowded on nice summer days), the tennis and basketball courts, the «mansion» which thankfully has work scheduled, and the incredible proximity to the Herne Hill rail station, zone 2 on Oyster.
You just don’t get parks like this north of the river (yeah, I went there). Dear lottery funding, thank you.

One of my favorite parks where you can meet some really good people.

Brockwell is located between brixton and Herne hill this large historic park has visitors streaming through throughout the whole year and throughout the years it has develop and refurbish Brockwell hall and lido.
The 38^th annual Lambeth Country Show proved the perfect way to end the amazing summer of 2012.
It’s a hugely popular free event in Brockwell Park, you can enjoyed two exciting days of live music line-​up over two stages, Huge fair, wide range of delicious food, sheep dog displays, horse jousting, flower and vegetable competitions, farm animals, delicious food and much more.

One of London’s best parks, and tourist free!
A lovely park with the usual mix of lawn and trees/​shrubs with the added bonuses of a hill with lovely views over London and a huge open air lido (swimming pool) in the original art-​deco building with full gym attached and a fantastic café. Add to this it’s location close to Brixton and this is one of the very best spots in London for a picnic or beers with mates. VERY highly recommended!

I’m in Brockwell Park nearly every day. It’s such a special place. I love it because it’s fairly unstructured and every view is different and you get great views of the London skyline too. It’s also fairly hillly so really good for cycling or running and getting fit. Ali.

Is it London’s nicest park? It could be.
But why?
Quite possibly the best Lido in London — and you can swim here on winter solstice (afer cracking the ice)
Nestled between up-​and-​coming Herne Hill and Brixton, Brockwell is home to London’s only country fair, the Jerk Chicken Cook-​off, tennis lessons, a serious urban garden, elder trees (for cordial!) a space to let your dog run, the back end of the Tulse Hill Estate, and the west end of West Dulwich.
Everyone comes here– it should be all wrong but it feels so, so good.

What beautiful fireworks!
I can’t believe that Lambeth put on a magnificent 30 minute display for FREE!
So fantastic and really made my day. Amazing amazing amazing, and not to be missed.
One word… Wow!

Another fantastic South London park. Nestled between Brixton and Herne Hill, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a big old green expanse with not much to offer. At least that’s what I has always thought.
Silly boy, Craig. You’ll actually find a lido, numerous sport pitches and courts, a lovely café with outdoor seating in the old mansion, a walled garden, some ponds with waterfowl, working toilets and, oh yes, a vast expanse of green to do whatever you like in.
This appears to be the locals’ back garden — lots of sitting and reading, eating and drinking going on.
I wish i’d brough my trunks for a swim!

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Love Brockwell park — great view over the City, Battersea power station, even the London Eye (yes really).
Really nice café in the Georgian House at the top, or at the Lido Café which will be amazing in summer. Just wish they had a heated pool…
Good for playing tennis (£4 a court) in the summer, you can get tennis lessons there too.

As far as London parks go, this one sits toward the top of the list. Here’s why:
* Green usable space. While it’s all very nice when parks have lots of hidden spots surrounded by trees and pathways and ponds, sometimes you just want a big open field in which to set up your massive picnic party and have a jolly good game of rounders (old chap).
* Toilets! After your 4^th or 5^th Pimms, a working toilet comes in pretty handy. Luckily Brockwell Park has a centrally located building with toilets (although pretty messy I have to say).
* Off the beaten path. It’s far from being central, so it may take a while to get there, but once you’ve arrived you feel peacefully hidden away from the smoke and noise of the city.
* Breezy. If it’s a hot summer day (rare), this is a perfect place to chill out as it sits on a hill where breezes are constant and welcome!
I challenge anyone to a game of rounders, as long as we use a squash racket and tennis ball, and the bases are flip flops.

This greenhouse and vegetable garden run by volunteers is a great community initiative.
They are open every Sunday afternoon (in the spring/​summer at least) selling a large variety of seeds and seedlings. Perfect if you like choosing between 12 different types of tomato!
It’s all in small quantities, making it perfect for stocking up your veggie patch or window box.
The labelling could be better, but if you ask a busy volunteer they’re usually happy to answer your questions and are very knowledgeable.
As far as I can tell, everything’s 50p. For seeds you pay £1 membership fee then it’s 50p a packet.

This lovely park is a dogwalker’s dream, and since moving to the area at the end of the summer I spend at least an hour a day there wandering about with my little pooch Benji. It’s a lovely place to watch the seasons changing and this morning leaves of all colours were scattered across the frosty grass — right in London’s zone 2!
There are lots of different parts to the park including a lovely pond with geese and ducks, tennis courts, bike track, community greenhouses, a café inside the stately home-​esque building at the top of the hill, football pitches and wilder-​looking land to the side — perfect for dogs to bound through when the grass has grown high. Benji’s made lots of friends in the park and it’s easy to spend hours there if the weather’s nice, just pootling around letting the dogs play with each other.
I’ve just started using the park for exercise purposes too. Running round the perimeter once takes about 20 minutes, so I’ll be doing that regularly. The paths are a bit bumpy but it’s a lovely space to be in and safer than the streets!

It’s a great medium size park, I enjoy going there myself and saw how great it was for kids when I took my young nephew in the summer.
We started off having a swim in the lido, then had a go on the minature railway, ate at the local café café provencial then watched the BMX’rs going around the track then on too the large playground!
needless to say he fell instantly asleep on the way home!

Considering its position next to Brixton, Brockwell Park is surprisingly nice really. It’s undulating, with sweeps of grass, pleasant ponds and some nice gardens. There’s a lovely walled garden with benches to sit on (some of which are past sitting on it has to be said). There’s also a café which looks excellent, in a nice old building with an airy feel inside. It looks like it is set up to appeal to Brixton’s trendier residents.
The park also has some parts were the grass has been left to grow a little longer, and wood left out to rot for the wildlife (I assume this is what’s happening with the ‘wood ring’ see pictures).
Though not so immaculately tended as some parks, that’s not all bad. Runners might find the undulations make for a more challenging run. Overall it’s a lovely park, with a really relaxing feel.