Chard Estate Agents - Hyde Park area guide

Hyde Park, W1, W2, W8 and SW7

You could not be more central than Hyde Park and although this may seem an expensive area, there are many apartment buildings which offer excellent value and studios can be had for as little at £200 a week.

Hyde Park and adjoining Kensington Park have a long and intriguing history and together, constitute one of the largest parks in London. Hyde Park, famous for its Speakers’ Corner, where anybody has total freedom of speech to harangue an audience – if they can get one – also has the Serpentine and Serpentine Gallery – and is the venue of many famous rock concerts, including Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac in the 1960s and Aerosmith and White Stripes in 2007 and Concert for Mandela in 2008. 

The park has been used extensively as a setting for fiction, including many thrillers and also a series of Dr Who, where the doctor is attempting to reach Hyde Park when he lands on an alien planet.

The Hyde Park area is absolutely full of hotels, including the Dorchester and Hilton on Park Lane but also has much residential accommodation to offer, mainly in the form of apartment buildings, although there are a few small mews houses in locations such as Upper Brook Street.  The area includes Hyde Park itself, Marylebone, Baker Street, Park Lane, Upper Berkeley Street and Hyde Park Gardens.

The Hyde Park area would suit somebody whose main aim in life is to be as central as possible and within walking distance or a short taxi ride from everything the capital has to offer from restaurants and theatres to Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street shopping, jogging and fitness, or riding horses, in Hyde Park, concerts, fabulous walks and every sensory experience London can provide.


Recommended restaurant: the Nobu (where tennis player Boris Becker’s daughter Anna was famously conceived in a cupboard during lunch) on Park Lane is young, trendy, exciting and a magnet for the celebrity-watcher.