The walk starts at Marble Arch, at the western end of Oxford Street, by Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. Altogether work by more than 20 sculptors may be seen on the walk, and architecture by John Nash, Decimus Burton and George Gilbert Scott. The tube station is on the Central Line. 1880 Marble Arch was designed by Nash , inspired by the Constantine Arch in Rome. The Arch was built in 1828 as the chief entrance to Buckingham Palace, but later moved to its current site as an entrance to Hyde Park.
Bearded heads form the keystones of each arch.
They are by Edward Hodges Baily. From Marble Arch, proceeding southwards parallel to Park Lane is a fine double line of London Plane trees, and pleasant floral displays in the spring and summer. Half way down the path is a fountain, gift of the Constance Fund, containing good modern bronze statuary by T. Huxley-Jones dating from 1963. In the centre are a man and a woman cavorting, with four offspring leaping off the concrete base. The man has a Doric Greek look, but the woman's pointy hairstyle gives her away as modern.