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Richmond Park
Escape to the great outdoors in Richmond Park with its wide open spaces, grasslands and deer herds, just a stone’s throw from central London.
The park is a top UK site for ancient trees and supports a range of rare species including fungi, birds, beetles, bats, grasses and wildflowers.
Discover the Isabella Plantation woodland gardens, refuel at Pembroke Lodge tea rooms and enjoy distant views of St Paul’s Cathedral from King Henry’s Mound.
Try your hand at power kiting, horse riding or golf, or hire a bike for some off-road cycling along the Tamsin Trail.
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Richmond Park, Richmond, UK
We decided to visit Richmond Park on our last day of freedom before Lockdown 2.0 as the humans were off work and it had been on our list for a while. Well it didn't disappoint!
We parked in the Broomfield Hill car park which had plenty of space despite driving past some of the other car parks that were very full on the way. There is the Isabella Plantation Cafe hut which sells a selection of hot and cold drinks, hot snacks, crisps and cakes - I was even offered a doggy biscuit too by the very nice lady that served us! There is also some picnic benches if you want to stop and have a rest to eat your recently bought snacks or food you have bought yourself.
With the humans fed and fuelled up with coffee we headed out on our walk - the park is huge so plenty of different routes you can take. There is also a very handy map on display as you leave the car park to help you decide where you want to go. We headed out towards the isabella plantation which itself was currently closed to the public due to the deer cull taking place. We then walked towards the Pen ponds, and whilst dogs are allowed off lead in the park near the open water ponds we are requested that we have to go back on our leads to make sure we don't scare the waterfowl that live there.
We also walked past Pembroke lodge which is where the visitor centre is with a shop, cafe, car park and afternoon tea served inside the lodge itself - and most importantly toilets! From here we then followed the road back round to the Broomfield Hill car park and on the way we came across lots of free roaming deer! There are lots of notices in the car park that do tell us how to behave around the deer, so the humans popped me back on the lead before we got too close just to make sure I was on my best behaviour. However the deer were very well at camouflaging in the long grass and me being so low to the ground I personally didn't even realise they were there!
In total we were out walking in the park for about 2 hours, I was one very happy but tired pupper who then proceeded to snore all the way home whilst the humans navigated the traffic back to south east london.