# Primrose Hill Park, Regent's Park, and Hampstead Heath

Author: Smee, William Ray, 1816-1877

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62152

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Primrose+Hill+Park%2C+Regent%27s+Park%2C+and+Hampstead+Heath+Smee&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

THE main object sought to be attained in this correspondence was to induce the Government to purchase two plots of land adjoining Primrose Hill Park, together about eighteen acres, that space may be given to a great and rapidly-increasing population for football and cricket. It is probable most persons who know the wants of the district will be of opinion that it is very desirable this should be done. Every summer’s evening there is, in the small space of ground now available in the Regent’s Park, over-crowding and a badly made game. Many who wish to play cannot for want of room, and two fine boys, about fourteen years of age, complained that they were frequently hit, and the balls crosse...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/primrose-hill-park-regent-s-park-and-hampstead-heath-62152/chapters/1/index.md)