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The London Borough of Camden is in percentage terms the second-greenest of the Inner London boroughs (based on public green spaces). It contains most of the swathe of land Hampstead Heath and many smaller green spaces. The Central London part of the borough, south of Euston Road, is characterised by its elegant garden squares with large instances: Tavistock Square and Bedford Square. In this part runs the Regent's Canal (a 'Green Route') around the top edge of Regent's Park, a little of which is in Camden, including all of associated Primrose Hill. Highgate Cemetery is in Camden but Highgate Wood is in the neighbouring borough of Haringey.

Apart from Camden Council, a variety of agencies are responsible for the upkeep of open space in the borough. For example, Hampstead Heath is mostly owned by the City of London Corporation save Kenwood House which has an area of lawns, ponds and flower beds undivided from the heath, owned by English Heritage. Highgate Cemetery is managed by its own trust. The Phoenix Garden is managed by an independent charity.

Some open spaces of note:

• Bloomsbury Square
• Brunswick Square
• Coram's Fields
• Gordon Square
• Hampstead Heath (681 acres (2.8 km) in Camden, 110 acres (0.4 km) in next-door Barnet)
• Highgate Cemetery
• The Hill Garden and Pergola - see Thomas Hayton Mawson
• Kilburn Grange Park
• Lincoln's Inn Fields (the largest public square in London)
• Phoenix Garden (the only community garden in Soho and Covent Garden)
• Primrose Hill
• Regent's Park (part of)
• Russell Square
• Talacre Gardens
• Tavistock Square
• St James' Gardens
• St Martin's Gardens
• St Pancras Old Church Gardens
• Waterlow Park

Nature reserves

The borough has four Local Nature Reserves:

• Adelaide Nature Reserve
• Belsize Wood
• Camley Street Natural Park
• Westbere Copse

It has one Site of Special Scientific Interest:

• Hampstead Heath Woods

See also

• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater London

External links

• Camden Council: Parks and open spaces

v t e London Borough of Camden
Districts	Bloomsbury Camden Town Chalk Farm and Haverstock ward Fortune Green Gospel Oak Hampstead (inc. Belsize Park, Frognal, Finchley Road, South Hampstead and Swiss Cottage) Hatton Garden (inc. Saffron Hill) Kentish Town Primrose Hill Regent's Park Estate St Giles St Pancras Somers Town West Hampstead Partly in Camden Brondesbury / Kilburn Covent Garden Cricklewood Dartmouth Park Fitzrovia Highgate Holborn Kings Cross Tufnell Park St John's Wood (less than 2% in Camden)
Attractions	Ben Uri Gallery & Museum Bloomsbury Theatre British Library British Museum Brunswick Centre BT Tower Camden Arts Centre Charles Dickens Museum Dominion Theatre Donmar Warehouse Fenton House Foundling Museum Freud Museum Highgate Cemetery Keats House Kenwood House The Jewish Museum O2 Forum Kentish Town Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Roundhouse Shaftesbury Theatre Sir John Soane's Museum Wellcome Collection West End theatre
Street markets	Camden Market Chalton Street Market Goodge Place Market Inverness Street Market Leather Lane Market Plender Street Market Queen's Crescent Market Swiss Cottage Market
Parks and open spaces	Adelaide Nature Reserve Bloomsbury Square Camden Highline (proposed) Hampstead Heath Kilburn Grange Park Lincoln's Inn Fields Phoenix Garden Primrose Hill Regent's Park Russell Square Waterlow Park Westbere Copse
Constituencies	Hampstead and Kilburn Holborn and St Pancras
Tube and rail stations	Belsize Park  Camden Road  Camden Town  Chalk Farm  Chancery Lane  Euston  Euston tube  Euston Square  Finchley Road  Finchley Road & Frognal  Goodge Street  Gospel Oak  Hampstead  Hampstead Heath  Holborn  Kentish Town  Kentish Town West  Kilburn High Road  King's Cross  King's Cross St Pancras  Mornington Crescent  Russell Square  St Pancras South Hampstead  Swiss Cottage  Tottenham Court Road  Warren Street  West Hampstead  West Hampstead (Overground)  West Hampstead Thameslink
Public libraries	Swiss Cottage Library Holborn Library Pancras Square Library Camden Town Library Kilburn Library
Other topics	Blue plaques Coat of arms Council Listed buildings Grade I Grade II* People Public art Schools
Category Commons

v t e Parks and open spaces in London
Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's
Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Beckenham Place Park Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Charlton Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead Waterlow Park West Ham Wimbledon
Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Bedfont Lakes Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Foots Cray Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent
Commons	Barnes Blackheath Bostall Heath Clapham Ealing East Sheen Eel Brook Eltham Hackney Marshes Hainault Forest Ham Hampstead Heath Hayes Keston Mitcham Monken Hadley Peckham Rye Plumstead Stanmore Streatham Sutton Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon and Putney Winn's Woolwich Wormwood Scrubs
Village greens	Camberwell Crooked Billet Islington Kew Newington Parsons Richmond Shepherd's Bush Turnham Twickenham
Marshes and wetlands	Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham, Wennington, and Aveley Tottenham Walthamstow Woodberry Wetlands WWT London Wetland Centre
Woodland	Bostall Braeburn Coldfall Copse Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Mad Bess Old Park Oxleas Park Petts Queen's Repository Woods Russia Dock Sydenham Hill
House gardens	Avenue House Belair Park Boston Manor Park Broomfield House Cannizaro Park Chiswick House Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Gunnersbury Park Hall Place Hampton Court Park Hillingdon Court Kenwood House Lamorbey Park Langtons Manor House Gardens Marble Hill Park Morden Hall Park Morden Park Osterley Park Syon House Valence House Museum Walpole Park
Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre
Community gardens	Phoenix Garden

Notes

1. Surpassed by Westminster in percentage terms. And in absolute terms it is either first, second or third in public green space, close in scale to Wandsworth and Greenwich
2. Highgate Cemetery Ltd

• Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Camden