Talk:Bushy Park

Request

Badly needs updating and pictures, and deletion of the uncredited block of old text someone dropped in. I'll have a go at this in due course, but would be grateful for help. Any other Teddington/Hampton/elsewhere residents who would like to add stuff? Hampton Court Home Park needs work too. Mark Nesbitt 08:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Clearly all done.- Adam37 Talk 10:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Origin of the name?

I'm missing a clear statement about the origin of the name (just bushy as in bushes?) and its age -- it was apparently known as Bushy Park in Wolsey's time, but how long before then? Ijon (talk) 21:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Not long before, as no references, even in the surviving parchment deeds and returns of both Hampton and Teddington manors, feets of fine, Inqs. Post Mortem, other taxation/conveyance related documents of before then just as one would expect for what was no more than the fields and woods of a great, enviable manor at the time, of which there were many. See Victoria County History (collaborative, ongoing historian's project): Middlesex various volumes and pages.- Adam37 Talk 10:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

"The park's mildly acid grasslands are mostly just above the 25-foot contour"

First sentence in the second paragraph of the introduction. There is no indication of the meaning or significance of this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.221.91.66 (talk) 16:19, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

I assume it means 25 feet above sea level but I have deleted as its relevance is unclear. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:46, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Obviously it is relative great prominence (height) in maps. It meets (policies) both WP:V, no new research, and distills what the maps of the large site tell us, but will doubtless offend those who like more words when they are simply not needed; this is not a general pamphlet, but a well-categorised encyclopedia whereby the context is as clear as crystal.- Adam37 Talk 10:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)