In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, what is the name of the London park where Peter first appears?

Peter first appears in Kensington Gardens in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

The book, published in 1906, expands a Peter Pan episode from Barrie’s earlier novel The Little White Bird. It presents Peter as a baby who flies from his nursery to Kensington Gardens, where he meets fairies and encounters the park’s magical nighttime world.

Kensington Gardens is a real royal park in London, adjacent to Hyde Park. Barrie’s fictional treatment transforms recognizable locations within the gardens into a setting for fantasy. The story’s Peter is not yet the permanently young boy of the later stage play and novel.

The title can cause confusion because Kensington Gardens is both the book’s setting and its title. The separate Peter Pan statue in the gardens was commissioned later, in 1909, and unveiled in 1912.