The
Mall
 The Mall |
The Mall is the impressive avenue of trees leading to Buckingham Palace, but it actually pre-dates the building of Buckingham House in 1703. Originally in St.James's Park (now it borders it) it was an alley with trees where Charles II, who used the park a great deal, played pall-mall, or pell-mell, a game similar to croquet.
St. James's Park has always been a royal park, and never used for anything else. Henry VIII drained it to make a deer park, and established the Court of St. James. It was laid out for James II with a menagerie and duck decoys. Charles II enhanced it, relandscaping it in formal French style. John Nash carried out the present less formal layout for George IV, the former Prince Regent.
The Mall runs from Buckingham Palace to Admiralty Arch, and the ley runs along it slightly offset to the left, looking towards the Palace. The energy stream was measured as twenty-three paces, one border being in the centre of the Victoria Monument outside the Palace, and the other being at the edge of the circular paved area which surrounds it. There seems to be some tendency for the trees to lean towards the ley.
 Route of the Mall |
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