Richmond Park, located in south west London, is the largest park in the capital and also the largest city park in Europe. The two and a half thousand hectares (over eight miles across at it's widest point) provide plenty of space for the local red and fallow deer population, numbering around 650. Historically this was a royal hunting ground and there is still a yearly cull to control the deer population. The park has several ponds and lakes, along with several houses (some closed to the public) and a landscaped woodland park (the Isabella Plantation).
