27 Facts About Richmond Park

Richmond Park includes many buildings of architectural or historic interest.

In particular, Richmond Park is of importance for its diverse deadwood beetle fauna associated with the ancient trees found throughout the parkland.

Richmond Park is located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Richmond Park is the most visited royal park outside central London, with 4.

In 2015 the Friends of Richmond Park expressed concern about plans to cut the numbers of police in the park to half the level that they were ten years previously, despite an increase in visitor numbers and in incidents of crime.

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Richmond Park Lodge fell out of use on Caroline's death in 1737 but was brought back into use by her grandson George III as his summer residence from 1764 to 1772, when he switched his summer residence to Kew Palace and had Richmond Park Lodge demolished.

Richmond Park was the first modern Iranian monarch to visit Europe.

Richmond Park played an important role during World War I and was used for cavalry training.

In November 2017, the Friends of Richmond Park reported that their campaigning on the issue had resulted in the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, instructing London planners to consult the Greater London Authority on planning requests for high-rise buildings which, if built, could affect the visibility of St Paul's from established viewpoints.

Richmond Park's instruction has now been incorporated into planning procedures across Greater London.

Richmond Park lost over 1000 mature trees during the Great Storm of 1987 and the Burns' Day Storm of 1990.

Originally created for deer hunting, Richmond Park now has 630 red and fallow deer that roam freely within much of the park.

Many of the deer in Richmond Park are infected with a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi which can be transmitted to humans through a tick bite, causing Lyme disease.

Richmond Park is an important refuge for other wildlife, including woodpeckers, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, frogs, toads, stag beetles and many other insects plus numerous ancient trees and varieties of fungi.

Beverley Brook rises at Cuddington Recreation Ground in Worcester Richmond Park and enters the park at Robin Hood Gate, creating a water feature used by deer, smaller animals and water grasses and some water lilies.

Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park is the scene of a picnic and a child's disappearance in chapters 9 and 10 of Chris Cleave's 2008 novel The Other Hand.

Novelist Shena Mackay was commissioned by The Royal Parks to write a short story about Richmond Park named The Running of the Deer which was published in 2009.

Hind in Richmond Park by William Henry Hudson, published in 1922 and republished in 2006, is an extended natural history essay.

Joseph Allen's Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, as Ranger of Richmond Park is in the collection of the National Trust, and is held at Erddig, Wrexham.

Landscape: View in Richmond Park was painted in 1850 by the English Romantic painter John Martin.

John Buxton Knight's White Lodge, Richmond Park, painted in 1898, is in the collection of Leeds Museums and Galleries.

Spencer Gore's painting Richmond Park, thought to have been painted in the autumn of 1913 or shortly before the artist's death in March 1914, was exhibited at the Paterson and Carfax Gallery in 1920.

Richmond Park's painting Wood in Richmond Park is in the Birmingham Art Gallery's collection.

Deer in Richmond Park is Plate V in his book The Silent Traveller in London, published in 1938.

Trees, Richmond Park, Surrey, painted in 1938 by Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, is in the Manchester Art Gallery's collection.

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Richmond Park has been a location for several films and TV series:.

Richmond Park's was married to the Duke of Brunswick and was feeling homesick, so an English-style park was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown and a palace built for her, both with the name "Richmond".