Wimbledon Park is probably the most important London park, south of the River Thames. As Merton Council note, "Wimbledon Park is South London’s best kept secret!" A product of the last ice age, this beautiful valley was transformed in the 18^th century by the most famous of all English landscape architects, Capability Brown. The views, the lake, the grassy lawns, the ancient oaks, all have the mark of this master of landscape. That we still have such a large and indeed the central section of Capability Brown’s creation is quite remarkable in itself. The WPHG hopes to keep it as it is today, in the face of mounting urban pressure.

Today, the park provides an almost perfect balance between the open space of the Wimbledon Park Golf Club and the public play areas within Merton Council’s section of the park. The Wimbledon Club provides more open space via its cricket ground. Wimbledon Park is the perfect buffer for the high concentration of buildings and tennis facilities located within the All England Lawn Tennis Club, located just across Church Road from the park.

WPHG provides a forum that is focused on just Wimbledon Park. Our committee members comprise the several local resident’s associations which surround the park, the four clubs and the two local authorities which are involved in and around the park.

To date, WPHG has established a twelve stage Heritage Trail that follows the borders of the park and tells the history of the park. Within the public area of the park, WPHG maintains an ongoing anti-graffiti maintenance programme that has proved quite successful and provides a model for other similar activity in Merton. You will also find in this website several other recent projects that the Heritage Group have carried out in Wimbledon Park.