Regents Park Property, History & Transport
Regent Park est peut-être la ville du monde le premier jardin, avec son aménagement paysager informelle, des villas et la façon dont les maisons sont groupées en terrasses qui ressemblent à des palais.
Le parc, à l'origine connu sous le nom de Marylebone Park, a été aménagé pour Henry VIII comme un terrain de chasse. En 1812, l'architecte John Nash a été introduite par le Prince Régent, futur roi George IV, de la développer.
Nash’s plan was revolutionary. He envisaged a complete new community, with nobles living in villas at the centre, the professional classes in the terraces round the park and lesser folks in humbler dwellings to the east. He even provided a market to supply the houses with food and other essentials. A new canal, the high-speed travel of its day, skirted the north.
The vision was never entirely completed, and a palace for the Prince was never even started, and in the following centuries the nobility moved out and learned institutions such as the Zoological Society of London moved in – the London Zoo is still a major tourist attraction.
The grand terraces have always been popular with literary types. Wilkie Collins, the first horror novelist, lived at 17 Hanover Terrace and HG Wells lived at No 13 during the Blitz, when he painted a giant 13 on the house to show what he thought of superstition.
