The Serpentine
The Serpentine is a 40-acre recreational lake in Hyde Park, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Queen Caroline. Although it is common to refer to the entire body of water as the Serpentine, the name refers in the strict sense only to the eastern half of the lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Pond
- Description: lake in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Serpentine”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hyde Park and Royal Albert Hall.
Hyde Park
Park
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Hyde Park is a 350-acre, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.
Royal Albert Hall
Theater building
Photo: Sandpiper, Public domain.
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage.
Natural History Museum
Museum
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knightsbridge and Belgravia.
Knightsbridge
Suburb
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Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End.
Belgravia
Suburb
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Belgravia is a district in Central London, covering parts of the areas of the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Belgravia was known as the 'Five Fields' during the Tudor Period, and became a dangerous place due to highwaymen and robberies.
Paddington-Maida Vale
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Paddington-Maida Vale is a district of northwest central London, around the vast Paddington Station of Paddington Bear fame. This inner London district is somewhat bereft of attractions but it does have a large range of budget and mid-priced accommodation.
The Serpentine
- Categories: lake and body of water
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“The Serpentine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السربينتين”
- Basque: “Serpentine lakua”
- Basque: “Serpentine”
- Breton: “The Serpentine”
- Catalan: “Llac Serpentine”
- Catalan: “Serpentine River”
- Catalan: “Serpentine”
- Catalan: “The Serpentine”
- Chinese: “九曲湖”
- Chinese: “曲水湖”
- Chinese: “瑟彭泰恩河”
- Dutch: “Serpentine”
- French: “Serpentine”
- German: “The Serpentine”
- Hebrew: “אגם הסרפנטיין”
- Hebrew: “אגם הסרפנטין”
- Hebrew: “אגם סרפנטיין”
- Hebrew: “אגם סרפנטין”
- Hebrew: “הסרפנטיין”
- Hebrew: “הסרפנטין”
- Irish: “The Serpentine”
- Italian: “Serpentine Lake”
- Japanese: “サーペンタイン・レイク”
- Japanese: “サーペンタイン池”
- Japanese: “サーペンタイン湖”
- Korean: “서펜타인”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Serpentine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “The Serpentine”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Serpentine”
- Norwegian: “Serpentine”
- Persian: “سرپنتاین”
- Polish: “Serpentine”
- Russian: “Серпентайн”
- Spanish: “Lago Serpentine”
- Swedish: “Serpentine”
- Swedish: “The Serpentine”
- Ukrainian: “Серпентин”
- Venetian: “Serpentine Lake”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Knightsbridge and Belgravia and Greater London.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tyburn Brook and The Royal Parks.
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