Tivoli Park

The park lies on part of the grounds of a large house called Holderness House, which was built in 1839 for Thomas Henry Maudslay, whose father Henry had established a famous engineering firm at premises in Westminster Bridge Road, Waterloo. In 1914 four acres of the estate was sold to Lambeth Borough Council in order to create a new public open space. The new open space, originally known as Knight’s Hill Recreation Ground, was renamed Tivoli Park in 2010. The name ‘Tivoli’ is thought to come from the ‘Tivoli Gardens’, which are outside Rome and were popular in Victorian times, leading to a spate of roads throughout England taking this much older name.