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If you're walking through Richmond Park in need of a coffee and a cake, then this is your place. In its own gardens with great views over London, it's a really gorgeous little place.

The grounds of Pembroke Lodge are a fabulous addition to the park, and for anyone old enough to remember Ian Dury, there is a memorial bench in the gardens at Poet's Corner. The bench is solar powered and you can plug in your headphones to listen to a selection of his music and his Desert Island Discs interview.

It is also a super place to hold your wedding, as I did.
Not only are the staff amazing, doing all you could ever ask of a wedding venue, but the place is in unbelievably cheap to hire, particularly considering it is in such a beautiful setting in one of the most expensive boroughs of London.

You can hire the upstairs, or the larger downstairs venue where you get use of the terrace too - but be warned you may be sharing it with people having a coffee!

http://www.iandury.co.uk/memorial_bench.htm