Little Wormwood Scrubs is a

park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

in Kensal Green on the border of Hammersmith and Fulham and

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (often known by its initialism as RBKC) is an Inner London, Inner London borough with Royal borough, royal status. It is the List of English districts by area, smallest borough in London and the secon ...

Counter's Creek Counter's Creek, ending in Chelsea Creek, the lowest part of which still exists, was a stream that flowed from Kensal Green, by North Kensington and flowed south into the River Thames on the Tideway at Sands End, Fulham. Its remaining open w ...

, a now subterranean stream that arises in

Kensal Green Kensal Green, also known as Kensal Rise, is an area in north-west London, and along with Kensal Town, it forms part of the northern section of North Kensington, London, North Kensington. It lies north of the canal in the London Borough of Brent ...

flows south through the park, eventually joining the

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History

Little Wormwood Scrubs was originally part of

Wormwood Scrubs Wormwood Scrubs, known locally as The Scrubs (or simply Scrubs), is an open space in Old Oak Common located in the north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London. It is the largest open space in the borough ...

, and separated from it in the 1840s when the railway embankment of the West London line was built. In 1870, the northwest part of the land was exchanged for land to the south east;

Little Wormwood Scrubs today

In 2005, an unexploded terrorist bomb was discovered in the park. Part of the

21 July 2005 London bombings On 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks by four Islamism, Islamist extremists disrupted part of London's public transport system as a follow-up attack to the 7 July 2005 London bombings two weeks earlier. The explosions occurred around mid ...

, it was made safe by the police using a controlled explosion.

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Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Common land in London {{London-stub

History

Little Wormwood Scrubs today

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