Inside a green and leafy park in south London is something very unusual – but you have to look very closely to spot it. In Vauxhall Park, six small houses are set among flowerbeds in what may be the smallest ‘village’ in Britain.
The village also has three smaller outbuildings that sit along the path through the park. These houses are barely two feet tall and have been designed in an apparent Tudor style, with black beams, white paint and red roofs.
But very little is known about these tiny little houses. They were made in 1949 by Edgar Wilson of Norwood and restored in 2001, but no one really knows why they are here.
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An air of mystery surrounds the houses. Some are similar, but a couple of the others are different colors. One is green, while another has a purple color, and a third, slightly apart from the others, is red with a yellow roof.
They are connected by concrete paths between each of the houses and nestled among flowerbeds in the park, they are easy to miss if you don’t know what you are looking for.
Vauxhall Park itself, where these tiny houses reside, is full of its own history. Lambeth Park was created by Millicent Fawcett, one of the leaders of the suffrage movement, to commemorate her husband Henry, who was a well-known academic and statesman. The park was opened in July 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
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