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Hyde Park Tree & Garden Walk

Tuesday 30th April at 11.00

Walk with Greg Packman, Tree Expert and Beth Handley, Head Gardener

Members will be sent an email with booking details

The Serpentine has been frequently frozen over so strongly in the past that in the winter of 1814 a fair was held on the ice; and in 1825 a Mr. Hunt for a wager drove a coach and four horses across the Serpentine during a severe frost.

History of the Serpentine from Old and New London by Edward Walford 1878

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