Postman's Park, Public park near St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
The park features gardens, walkways, and benches spread across multiple former burial grounds that were combined to create this central London space.
Established in 1880, the park incorporated several church burial grounds, including St Botolph's Aldersgate, Christ Church Greyfriars, and St Leonard Foster Lane.
The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice displays ceramic tablets commemorating ordinary individuals who died while trying to save others' lives.
Located in the Aldersgate ward, the park provides access points from Little Britain, Aldersgate Street, and King Edward Street in central London.
The elevated surface of the park sits above street level due to the historical practice of layering soil over corpses when burial spaces became scarce.
Location: City of London
Inception: October 28, 1880
GPS coordinates: 51.51680,-0.09764
Latest update: May 27, 2025 07:06
London offers far more than Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Away from the main attractions, numerous sites remain unfamiliar even to many locals. This selection includes the ruins of St Dunstan-in-the-East, where a medieval church has been transformed into a public garden, the Sir John Soane's Museum with its antiquities and architectural fragments, and Dennis Severs' House, a Georgian townhouse preserved as a lived-in time capsule. The collection features gardens such as Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park and Kyoto Garden in Holland Park, historic buildings like the 14th-century Charterhouse and St Bartholomew the Great, London's oldest parish church. It also covers unusual museums including the Old Operating Theatre, Europe's oldest surviving surgical theater, and industrial monuments like Crossness Pumping Station with its Victorian steam engines. Leadenhall Market displays Victorian architecture in the financial district, while God's Own Junkyard in Walthamstow exhibits thousands of neon signs. Other sites range from the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu temple in Neasden to Wilton's Music Hall, London's oldest music hall, and the Victorian dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace Park. Little Venice presents canals lined with houseboats, the Freud Museum preserves the psychoanalyst's London home, and Keats House commemorates the Romantic poet. These locations provide insights into history, architecture, and culture beyond the standard tourist circuit.
London Wall
92 m
BT Centre
134 m
Christ Church Greyfriars
151 m
Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice
18 m
General Post Office, London
148 m
Goldsmiths' Hall
175 m
Greyfriars
151 m
St Anne and St Agnes
98 m
200 Aldersgate
123 m
St Botolph's Aldersgate
40 m
St John Zachary
164 m
St Nicholas Shambles
142 m
King Edward Building (Post Office)
103 m
St Mary Staining
183 m
St Olave Silver Street
172 m
English Runic Inscription 2
117 m
Statue of Rowland Hill
95 m
Fountain
186 m
London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Nobl
173 m
Aldersgate Flame
132 m
London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
129 m
London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
60 m
Gate And Railings To Former Churchyard Of Church Of St Botolph
45 m
Newgate Street Clock
169 m
General Post Office North
49 m
Police Call Box At North East Angle Of Number 1
44 m
The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
158 m
General Post Office New Building
131 mReviews
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