Wyck Gardens

Wyck gardens is thought to gets its name from the old Manor of Lambeth Wick, which originally belonged to the Archbishops of Canterbury and was once part of an older area of woodland called ‘Wickwood’. These woods had been cleared by the end of the 17th Century and remained as open land until the 1960’s when most of it was cleared for housing. When the area was redeveloped in the 1950’s, part of the original Church estate was bought by the London County Council for a new public open space which opened in 1959.