{"id":3920,"date":"2022-12-02T20:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10015\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2022-12-02T20:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:02:55","slug":"the-park-in-the-pill-chancery-public-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10015\/the-park-in-the-pill-chancery-public-park\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PARK IN THE PILL – CHANCERY PUBLIC PARK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2 DECEMBER 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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This attractive little park is well worth a visit but it up until recently I was more than annoyed by the fact that the gates were only open for two hours every weekday up until a few years ago. To the best of my knowledge it is now open to the public from 8am to 4pm every day. Officially, the hours are limited because of anti-social activity in the immediate area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighbourhood of Chancery Park has a very colourful history. According to some historic accounts it was known as \u201cthe Pill\u201d, an ancient name that was related to a Viking term for \u201cpenis\u201d. Up until 1798, Pill Lane, where Chancery Street now stands, was considered a hotbed of sedition. It was such a source of revolutionary pamphlets that the authorities spoke of the \u201cMarats of Pill Lane\u201d, a reference to the French radical journalist assassinated in his bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n