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Designed to protect the docks from landward attack, they were never needed militarily, except for the kind of exercises Mr Pickwick (and his creator, Charles Dickens) witnessed, but they provide 90 acres

About 1,000 acres of land, extending five miles along the coast and five miles northwards, were taken over by the military during World War Two, and have yet to be returned to the public.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

Easton Socon was originally in Bedfordshire, `on the borders of Huntingdonshire`; the early 20th-century directories tell us that the parish covered over 7000 acres, but only had a population of 2000

Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the

Originally this area was called Acres Field, and it was here that the Manchester Fair was held on the eve, day and morrow of St Matthew, September 20-22.

The creators of Golden Acre Holiday Bungalows - as they are now called - proposed a relatively modest development of 18 such buildings.

In this inn, formerly the vicarage, the centuries-old Hubberholme parliament met each year to auction the letting of 16 acres of rough upland pasture behind here.

After the Rothschilds sold the estate in 1917, a consortium of local councils bought 200 acres and opened it to the public in 1926.

Some 24 square miles of the 4,000 acres that constitute the Water Park are fully established at South Cerney, offering water sports, angling and sailing within a holiday and recreational centre

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

Later, ownership of the grounds went to the Conyngham family and various tenant farmers until 1937, when a community of German Benedictine nuns bought the monastery and 10 acres of land.

At 42 acres, Great Bentley's village green is the largest in England.

This street was once called Market Stead Lane, and led from the newly-emerging warehouses around Piccadilly to the Market Place, Acres Field and the Shambles.

Designed to protect the docks from landward attack, they were never needed militarily, except for the kind of exercises Mr Pickwick (and his creator, Charles Dickens) witnessed, but they provide 90 acres

It has grounds of about 35 acres, with splendid views of the Downs and the White Horse.

Situated in 70 acres of parkland, the hotel treated patients suffering from gout, rheumatism, sciatica, neuritis and even insomnia.

His nursery, he claimed, boasted 10,000 acres of glass.

This ten-acre park was purchased by the council with the help of donations in 1904 from the landowner, Mrs Maynell Ingram of Temple Newsam House, Leeds.

The remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was