London’s Pocket Parks: Old Paradise Gardens, SE11

This pocket park in Lambeth is a former gravyeard that closed to the dead 170 years ago, and opened to the living 40 years later.Although created as a graveyard in 1703 there isn’t a church here, as the graveyard was an overflow site for the nearby St Mary’s church which sits next to the Thames and Lambeth Palace. The church is now the Garden Museum., and you can climb up the old church tower to get some pretty good views across central London.
But back in the 18th century, the churc