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Two hundred acres of riverside green space reclaimed from marshland on the south bank of the Thames, this Victorian park opened to the public in 1858 after a decade of earth-moving and planting directed by designer James Pennethorne. The site had previously been the Battersea Fields, a swampy common associated with duelling, market gardening, and the Red House tavern, whose rowdy reputation eventually prompted Parliament to authorise its transformation into a public park. A boating lake, subtro...