Top 10 outdoor ice rinks

Hampton Court Palace, London Photograph: PR

The Greenwich ice rink, London, housed between the colonnades of the Old Royal Naval College Photograph: PR

Warwick Castle, England, where a 250m long ice river will be installed this year Photograph: PR

Skating@Life, Centre for Life, Times Square, Newcastle Photograph: PR

Skate to the sound of breakers at the Cove Hotel, Lamorna Cove, Cornwall Photograph: PR

One of two ice rinks in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle Photograph: PR

Hockey players on the city-centre ice rink in Helsinki, Finland Photograph: Corbis

Rockefeller Centre, New York - the most famous Christmas ice rink in the United States Photograph: Corbis

Learning to skate among the skyscrapers of Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles Photograph: PR

Paths are flooded to create an enormous rink in Gorky Park, Moscow Photograph: EPA

Skating beneath Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California, 1922 Photograph: Corbis