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One piece of pedantry only, thanks.
Various missing or misplaced apostrophes, e.g. "New Years' Day".

dg writes: Insufficiently specifically pedantic.
I think Richmond park is London's largest park.
I cannot abide 'could of'. What's wrong with 'could have '?
Is the Pedantry you are looking for about the fact that it is Kensington Gardens next to the Palace not Hyde Park?

dg writes: Exactly this kind of thing, yes.
"it's" should read "its"
Queen Caroline did not dam the lake. The lake was dammed on the wishes of/on the command of Queen Caroline.

dg writes: You've totally got the idea of this.
Queen Caroline ordered the River Westbourne to be dammed.
Use of recreate as a verb is an Americanism - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recreate
Since you ask, insufficient capitalisation in Kensington Palace
She never had the title Princess Diana.The fountain is formally named the "Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain" or informally referred to as the "Diana Memorial Fountain".
"occuring" (US English) should be "occurring" (UK English)
@Dominic H: 'UK English' should read : 'English'
"The lost river Tyburn" should be "Tyburn Brook".
The park wasn't granted access (to the public), the public were granted access to the park.

BTW, today's posts would have qualified you to be a churnalist on the Daily Telegraph !
I think you'll find that those 'unnumbered' acres amount to 350, to be more precise.

(I love this)
Isn't that cold swim on Christmas Day?
Richmond Park is bigger?
London's largest park.
Noon update:
Any number of comments accepted, but only one piece of pedantry per comment, thanks.

You missed the apostrophe in 'London's'
Shouldn't it be 'Speakers' Corner'?
It would be 'vigorous' debate at Speaker's Corner, except that it's not a debating forum.
You can't dam a lake; a lake results if you dam a stream or river.
Scores of Londoners? More like thousands.
The apostrophe in "It's also a Royal Park" appears to have migrated to "Perhaps its finest feature"
If it's naturally occurring, it's a spring, not a borehole
Spelling of "artificial"
Is it 'Londons' or should that be 'London's' as there is only one London ( at least in the UK) or do all Londons across the world have a Hyde Park ?
... and a small waterfall tumbles ornamentally over the sluice at the far end. (Take care to never split infinitives or adverb / noun order !)
The Serpentine swimmers do not "always" end up on the TV news". They often appear on the TV news.
There are only 11 royal parks
... it was unusual because it was curved, whereas up until then most artificial lakes had been more rectilinear.
An area near the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is cordoned off for use by swimmers. (If it's cordoned off, it's already special.)
... members of the Serpentine Swimming Club go for a chilly dip. (It's not always freezing on Christmas Day.)
"A small waterfall ornamentally tumbles" should read "A small waterfall tumbles ornamentally". NOT for the reason given above (that you should never separate subject from verb by an adverb - sometimes this is perfectly acceptable, for example "Peanuts never mumble"). The reason is than in this case the original wording looks and sounds clumsy.
Hyde park's official website says it was opened to the public in 1637.
Mold rather than Mould
The plural of heron is herons.

dg writes: According to the dictionary, both heron and herons are acceptable plurals. But I agree, the latter is much more common.
'boreholes in the chalk aquifer' rather than 'chalk boreholes'
Water doesn't flow over a sluice. so it must be a weir or spillway
Because the previous clause uses 'I'm' and not 'I am', I would insert an 'I' immediately before 'find the café menus unexceptional'.
That's time up, thanks!










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