Why is it called Itchycoo Park? And where is it?

Question

Thumberlina: best yet.
I am an East lad, I was led to believe it could have been a small park near Aldgate?
got it's name because of all the tramps that frequented it.
Who really knows?

Answer 1

There has been speculation about the actual location of Itchycoo Park.

"Itchycoo Park is a name East End kids used to give to any local park (Manor Park) where vagrants congregated (when I was a kid in the East End in the '60s)." (Paul Williams)

The name comes about because the park was notorious for the stinging nettles that tended to attract kids playing and courting couples and make them itch.

"I was born and bred in Manor Park E12 and lived there between 1953 and1967. I met Steve Marriott on a number of occasions as a youngster. Manor Park itself was not known as Itchycoo Park rather it was what us local kids including Steve nicknamed little Ilford Park due to the horrendous amount of stinging nettles there. It is still there at the bottom of Church Road E12 now minus the nettles. Hope this authentic info puts you right." (Anthony Wragg)

Tony Quinlan claims that it was NOT Ilford Park but Little Ilford Park in Manor Park E12:

Answer 2

Small Faces London- Ilford Park
There has been speculation about the actual location of Itchycoo Park.

"Itchycoo Park is a name East End kids used to give to any local park (Manor Park) where vagrants congregated (when I was a kid in the East End in the '60s)." (Paul Williams)

The name comes about because the park was notorious for the stinging nettles that tended to attract kids playing and courting couples and make them itch.

"I was born and bred in Manor Park E12 and lived there between 1953 and1967. I met Steve Marriott on a number of occasions as a youngster. Manor Park itself was not known as Itchycoo Park rather it was what us local kids including Steve nicknamed little Ilford Park due to the horrendous amount of stinging nettles there. It is still there at the bottom of Church Road E12 now minus the nettles. Hope this authentic info puts you right." (Anthony Wragg)

Tony Quinlan claims that it was NOT Ilford Park but Little Ilford Park in Manor Park E12:

Not `Ilford ` Park. I was born in 1949 in Manor Park and the place was a magnet to us kids. It was where I first met Steve in about 1959. He was about 11 or 12, I was 10. The reason it was known as Itchycoo Park was because of the amount of stinging nettles everywhere! It wasn`t our generation that named it, it had always been called that according to my father.

Answer 3

Because it's full of those itchycoo plants and it's in timbuctoo

Answer 4

it's called Itchycoo Park coz it's all too beautiful.

Answer 5

because the small faces decided to call it that

Answer 6

It's where they put the STD clinics, and you can find them in the phone book.

Answer 7

i dont know but its all to beautiful

Answer 8

in the southern region ;) lmao