Location

Hyde Park (near Victoria Gate)
Park Lane
London W2 2UH
United Kingdom

Nearest Underground station

Lancaster Gate

Nearest bus routes & stops

Bus routes: 2, 6, 10, 13, 16, 23, 36, 74, 98, 137, 148, 390
Nearby stops:
Marble Arch Station / Park Lane
Marble Arch (Stop C / Stop D depending on direction)

Walking route from Lancaster Gate to Byron’s statue

Estimated time: 3–5 minutes (very easy, flat walk)

Directions:

  • Turn left/east along Bayswater Road, keeping Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens on your right.
  • Continue for roughly 300 metres.
  • Cross Westbourne Street at the lights.
  • Victoria Gate is immediately on your right, giving you access into Hyde Park by the Italian Gardens.
  • The statue of Lord Byron is just a short distance inside the park, set back from the road in a landscaped area.

IMAGE: Ben Brooksbank / Lancaster Gate Underground station, entrance 2002

Nearby things worth seeing (2–10 min walk)

  • The Italian Gardens
    Byron spent many years living in exile in Italy. He loved the climate and its people and spoke fluent Italian.
  • Other monuments to literature in the park
    Just like Byron, Peter Pan is a cultural icon, albeit a fictional one, and is commemorated with the Peter Pan Statue.
  • The Serpentine
    This is the lake in the middle of Hyde Park that was created by Queen Caroline in 1730 so Byron would have known it. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, another romantic poet, friend and contemporary of Byron’s, liked to float paper boats on it.
  • Hyde Park’s Rotten Row
    Rotten Row is a broad bridleway along the south side of Hyde Park. In Byron’s day and throughout the 19th century, it was a fashionable promenade for London’s aristocracy to parade themselves on horseback. Byron was a keen rider and might have joined in!