2013
TQ1866 : Hay meadow in Fishponds Park
taken 11 years ago, near to Surbiton, Kingston Upon Thames, England
Hay meadow in Fishponds Park
Fishponds Park contains three ponds, a stream and an area of grassland now managed as a hay meadow. On a map of 1762 this site is shown as a brick kiln and was part of Kingston Common, which stretched between Hook, Tolworth and Surbiton. By 1839 most of the land had been taken over as allotments, although a brickworks is still shown on the 1867 Ordnance Survey Map. Fishponds itself is a plain Georgian house built in 1742.
This is the hay meadow looking towards the houses in King Charles Road. The purple flower in the foreground is knapweed.
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