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It was purchased by Reuben Farley, who paid for its restoration and presented it to the town in 1898, together with four acres of land.

A 32-acre site adjoining the Botanical Gardens at Old Trafford was chosen, as it had both rail and tramway connections.

The War Office purchased over 1,600 acres of land here in 1863, and by 1903 camps had been constructed for troops returning from the Boer War.

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

The lake in Cyfarthfa Park covers nearly 7 acres.

Lord Zetland had given the town six acres of land, which was developed and opened in 1924; it originally also included tennis courts and gardens, a lake and an aviary.

It sits comfortably in 900 acres of landscaped grounds, which were designed by Capability Brown.

In 1898 a new pulpit was installed and the churchyard extended by a further acre.

Near Cross Foxes, a tract of land on the slopes of Cadair Idris known as the Tir Stent carries an unusually nutritious vegetation, which supports more sheep per acre than the poor acid soils elsewhere

Parts of the estate, some 571 acres, were being offered as building plots by 1920, and were sold to developers by 1935.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world – it covers 13 acres.

In 1830 a retired builder from Everton, James Atherton, bought 170 acres of sandhills on the northern tip of the Wirral, with the aim of creating a new seaside resort to rival Brighton.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

The Botanic Gardens occupy 43 acres off Great Western Road, and many orchids, tropical plants and trees are grown in its conservatories.

With its 13-acre grounds and Avon river frontage, the castle became a popular weekend retreat for Turner Turner's many friends.

In 1895 it comprised over 7,000 acres of land and 950 of tidal water and foreshore.

This view of Cockington is almost exactly the same today, thanks to the Mallocks of nearby Cockington Court: this is a 17th-century mansion that stands in 450 acres of parkland, and is now owned, along