Gardens · London
Thames Young Mariners
Thames Young Mariners — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
Mat Fascione — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Thames Young Mariners is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Thames Young Mariners is a 25-acre area of land situated in Ham. It includes the Thames Young Mariners Base Lagoon, which is a calm 10-acre lake connected to the River Thames by a lock. The site was established over 40 years ago and sits in between Richmond and Kingston. Thames Young Mariners is surrounded by Ham Lands, which is a Local Nature Reserve of approximately 200 acres. Ham Lands is home to an array of wildlife across its various areas of woodland, scrub, grassland, and wetland, and also features one of Britain’s most well-preserved heaths.
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Background
History
In the 1800s the Thames Young Mariners site housed three farms, all of which were owned by the Earl of Dysart. However, industrial and economic shifts over time saw agriculture in the area die out between the 1900s and 1950s in favour of housing and gravel extraction. Much of the area in the Ham Lands has historically been used for gravel extraction and the Thames Young Mariners Base Lagoon is itself artificial; the lake is in fact an old gravel pit that has been filled in to serve as a public amenity since the disuse and selling off of the pits in 1952.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.4380, -0.3273
- Address
- Thames Young Mariners Outdoor Education Centre, Riverside Drive, Ham, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7RX
- Official site
- www.surreyoutdoorlearning.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q24039217 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Thames Young Mariners (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Thames Young Mariners?
- Thames Young Mariners is in London, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.4380°, -0.3273°.
- Who owns Thames Young Mariners?
- Thames Young Mariners is owned by Surrey Outdoor Learning & Development.