Crystal Palace circuit is a former motor racing circuit in Crystal Palace Park in the Crystal Palace area of south London, England. The route of the track is still largely extant but the roads are now mainly used for access to the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre located in the park, and to events within the upper parts of Crystal Palace Park. Some parts of the track are closed off but part is used for an annual Sprint Meeting held on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, until 2017, when it was held on the August holiday weekend.
Pre-war Circuit (1937–1939)
Part of the back straight, seen in 2005; looking towards Ramp Bend (this part of the circuit was used as the start/finish straight up until 1960)
The start line at the 2019 sprint event
Crystal Palace Park is a large park in south-east London, Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It was laid out in the 1850s as a pleasure ground, centred around the re-location of The Crystal Palace -- the largest glass building of the time -- from central London to this area on the border of Kent and Surrey; the suburb that grew around the park is known by the same name.
Crystal Palace Park
An 1857 plan of the ground of Crystal Palace and park
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's Iguanodon statues.
The 1901 FA Cup final at Crystal Palace between Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield United