Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace is a district in south London straddling the boundaries of the London Boroughs of Bromley, Southwark, Lambeth, and Lewisham, centred on the hilltop at Sydenham Hill where the Crystal Palace stood until it was destroyed by fire in 1936. The area takes its name from the famous iron and glass structure originally built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park and later relocated to the south London hilltop. Crystal Palace Park, managed by the London Borough of Bromley, occupies the former exhibition grounds and contains a Victorian terraced garden with the famous prehistoric animal sculptures created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in the 1850s.