Hyde Park, City of Westminster, England
Entrance to Hyde Park
Hyde Park
The Devil’s Elm was or is (there is some degree of uncertainty as to whether it still exists) a tree with a deadly reputation, for it would bring death to tramps that slept under it or nightmare to ‘respectable people’. A phantom coach and horses was also said to drive past it.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
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Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in London and one of its Royal Parks.
The park is the largest of four that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace and on through Saint James's Park to Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall.
Pictured left is the entrance to Hyde Park courtesy of Punx. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
