Editing Richmond Park (section)

====Holly Lodge====
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|name         = Holly Lodge Centre
|image        = Holly_Lodge_Centre.png
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|formation    = 1994<ref name="Famous">{{cite press release | url=https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond-park/richmond-park-news/famous-faces-celebrate-20-years-of-the-holly-lodge-centre-in-richmond-park | title=Famous faces celebrate 20 years of the Holly Lodge Centre in Richmond Park | publisher=[[The Royal Parks]] | date=19 August 2014 | access-date=24 April 2021}}</ref>
|status       = Registered charity<ref name="Charity"/>
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|headquarters = Holly Lodge
|location     = Richmond Park, [[Richmond, London]], [[United Kingdom]]
|region_served = [[Greater London]] and [[Surrey]]<ref name="Charity"/>
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|main_organ   = ''Stepping Stones'' (quarterly newsletter)
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|num_staff    = 6<ref name="Staff HLC">{{cite web | url=https://www.thehollylodgecentre.org.uk/about/ | title=Meet our staff | publisher=Holly Lodge Centre | access-date=6 February 2025}}</ref>
|num_volunteers = >80<ref name="Volunteers HLC">{{cite web | url=https://www.thehollylodgecentre.org.uk/about/ | title=Who we are | publisher=Holly Lodge Centre | access-date=6 February 2025}}</ref>
|budget       = £121,168<ref name="Charity">{{cite web | url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3962825 | title=1076741&nbsp;– Holly Lodge Centre | publisher=[[Charity Commission]] | work=Find charities | access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref>
|website      = {{URL|https://www.thehollylodgecentre.org.uk/}}
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In 1735, a new lodge, Cooper's Lodge, was built on the site of Hill Farm.<ref name="FRP Guide96">{{cite book | title=''"Buildings" in'' Guide to Richmond Park | author=Michael Davison|publisher=[[Friends of Richmond Park]] | year=2011 | page=96|isbn=978-0-9567469-0-0}}</ref> It was renamed Lucas's Lodge in 1771 and Bog Lodge in the 1790s.<ref name = "WoodHL">{{Cite journal |last=Robert Wood|publisher= [[Richmond Local History Society]]|date=November 2023 |title=How Bog Lodge became Holly Lodge|journal=Richmond History |volume=44 |page=22|issn=0263-0958}}</ref> Bog Lodge was renamed Holly Lodge in 1993<ref name= "Pollard and Crompton 22">Pollard and Crompton, p. 22</ref> and now contains a visitors' centre (bookings only), the park's administrative headquarters and a base for the [[Metropolitan Police]]'s Royal Parks Operational Command Unit.

Holly Lodge also includes the '''Holly Lodge Centre''', an organisation which provides an opportunity for people of all ages and abilities to enjoy and learn from a series of hands-on experiences, focusing particularly on the environment and in the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] history and heritage of Richmond Park. The centre, which is [[wheelchair-accessible]] throughout,<ref name="About"/> was opened in 1994.<ref name="Famous"/> It was founded by Mike Fitt,<ref name="Famous"/><ref name="Holly Lodge People"/> who was then The Royal Parks' Superintendent of Richmond Park and later became Deputy Chief Executive of London's Royal Parks. A registered charity,<ref name="Charity"/> the Holly Lodge Centre received the [[Queen's Award for Voluntary Service]] in 2005.

[[Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy|Princess Alexandra]] has been Holly Lodge Centre's Royal Patron since 2007.<ref name="Holly Lodge People">{{cite web | url=https://thehollylodgecentre.org.uk/about/| title=Who we are | publisher=Holly Lodge Centre | work=About us | access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref> In 2011 she opened the centre's Victorian-themed pharmacy, ''Mr Palmer's Chymist''. This includes the original interior, artefacts and dispensing records dating from 1865, from a [[Pharmacy|chemist's shop]] in [[Mortlake]], and is used for educational activities. The centre also includes a replica Victorian schoolroom, and a [[kitchen garden]] planted with varieties of vegetables used in Victorian times and [[herbs]] cultivated for their medicinal properties.<ref name="About">{{cite web | url=https://www.thehollylodgecentre.org.uk/about/ | title=Facilities | publisher=Holly Lodge Centre | access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref>