Talk:Hyde Park, London

message: This article indicates that the name "Rotten Row" is a corruption of "Route du Roi." However, the article on Rotten Row claims there is no evidence as to this postulation. I'm not going to remove it, but anyone's input on that claim would be useful. mcclth (talk) 14:04, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rotten Row 

message: Someone on WP:RDH asked what the origin of the park's name is, and the article doesn't say. I did some research, and propose to add the following:
:: A small manor named Hyde is mentioned in the Domesday Book, part of the larger manor of Eia(ref1); the name Hyde probably derives from the Anglo Saxon unit of land taxation, the hyde.(ref2)
:where ref1= Old and New London: Volume 4 by Edward Walford, says of the area "About the time of Domesday Book, the manor of Eia was divided into three smaller manors, called, respectively, Neyte, Eabury, and Hyde. The latter still lives and flourishes as a royal park, under its ancient name, no doubt of Saxon origin". 
:and ref2= "Hyde", Oxford Book of British Place Names, ed A.D.Mills, Oxford University Press, 
I appreciate that ancient names can have different, equally likely and well-sourced, explanations, so I thought I'd run this past y'all before adding it. 87.113.26.43 (talk) 12:14, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of name

message: Doesn't make sense!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.247.85.30 (talk) 12:39, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search for "squirrel" yields 0 results! 

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message: Hi, everyone.
I propose that this article include a list of all the important buildings in the park.  Satellite photos show many, yet apparently most of these are not mentioned in this article.
Incidentally:  In late May of 1997, I took several photos in Hyde Park.  My contemporaneous notes describe the location as "near to the building w/ the big log bench in Hyde Park, London".  I vaguely recall that bench, but have not found anything about it online and don't know what building it was near.  Can anyone here shed any light on this mystery?
Are there also certain benches in the park that are worth mentioning at Wikipedia?
President Lethe (talk) 01:41, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buildings 

message: I propose that the top photo be changed as it really is a picture of Kensington Gardens with Hyde Park in the background, rather than the other way round (as per the description) 84.64.29.167 (talk) 06:43, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you find a better one? Murgatroyd49 (talk) 08:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a bunch in commons:Category:Aerial photographs of Hyde Park, London, but I'm not sure any are as good a quality as this one.
File:Aerial view of Hyde Park.jpg|:File:Aerial view of Hyde Park.jpg
File:Hyde Park from the air.jpg|:File:Hyde Park from the air.jpg
File:Hyde Park from air.jpg|:File:Hyde Park from air.jpg
File:London 02.jpg|:File:London 02.jpg
 Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:20, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

text: That's the problem, I've tried tweaking a couple but the results are mediocre. They appear to be taken through the window of an aircraft, the latter not being the best optical device available. Really needs a good drone shot but that is a very difficult thing to accomplish in Central London, especially in the current situation. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:37, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: As a followup, I've checked the online drone map and Hyde Park is a prohibited area. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:43, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo