The only modern comprehensive history of this popular park • Covers early origins, Henry VIII, John Nash and the Prince Regent, and the park today • The Regent’s Park attracts over 9 million visitors every year, and the nine royal parks collectively receive around 47 million visitors • Illustrated with historic and modern images The Regent’s Park has a history stretching back through seven centuries, well before the designer and architectural genius John Nash and his patron the Prince Regent laid it out at the beginning of the nineteenth century as the first of the improvements they had planned for London. Rabbitts recounts the story of the park from its origins as a tiny part of the Middlesex Forest to the dissolution of the Monasteries, when it became Henry VIII’s hunting park and Marylebone Park, to its subsequent development in the nineteenth century as London’s new West End. This comprehensive history of one of the United Kingdom’s most popular parks takes into account the wider history of Britain and its public parks.