"Green Park" or "The Green Park"? [duplicate]

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Why there is “the” before some names but not others

When do you use definite article with names of places?

I have gathered from the Wikipedia article that it is correct to say "The Green Park is a park ..." and "... a fireworks celebration held in Green Park". What are the differences between these sentences? Why the use of the in the former situation but not the latter?

Solution 1:

It's a matter of common usage rather than correctness. The official website of (The) Green Park uses both, but I would tend to use Green Park in speech and most writing. The Underground station is also called Green Park.

By contrast, I would almost always use the article the when referring to The Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

A special case would be when using a possessive, when I would drop the the: for instance, one might talk of Edinburgh's Royal Mile, or London's Green Park.