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The borough council bought 21 acres of Newcroft Farm, off the east side of Lickhill Road, in 1954.

Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.

Semer Water, which is about half a mile in length and covers about 100 acres, was formed by Ice Age glaciers gouging out the side dale known as Raydale.

Clacton was the brainchild of one man—Peter Bruff, an engineer with the Tendring Hundred railway company—who bought 50 acres of farmland here in 1865 with a view to its development as a holiday resort

to be eighteen settlements, or villages as they were to be called, linked together by dual carriageways, for predictions indicated that 'by 1976 it is expected that every family will have at least one car

Once known as Acres Field, it was here for about 500 years that Manchester's weekly markets and annual fairs were held.

The Spinney, as the manor house of the parish of Sully, was sold at auction in 1938 as part of 164 acres of land that included Sully Island.

Set in 98 acres of parkland, St Fagan's was donated for use as a National Museum by the Earl of Plymouth and now houses the Welsh National Folk Museum.

There are still remains of its Roman walling which enclosed about seven acres.

Beyond the castle is the tidal mill; it is set on a causeway which dams the Carew River, forming this 23-acre mill-pond.

Its 360- acres of open green space were called by William Pitt ‘the lung of London’.

About the time this picture was taken, plans by Sheppard Fidler had been accepted for a 461-acre development to include sixteen-storey tower blocks, two shopping centres, schools, community buildings

This now sits at the east side of a large roundabout of at least an acre, sited where the A24 and A29 London to Bognor roads diverge.

A sizeable crowd are fully engrossed in the action of a cricket match on the playing fields of the school, against the backdrop of the buildings, all of which are contained on an 85-acre site.

Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past

At one time Fountains had over 600,000 acres of land given over to wool production, but even so it was often in debt.

It is difficult to believe that the Town Planning scheme once scheduled portions of the island for development at a rate of 12 houses per acre.

'I must admit I have often cast lustful eyes on Bowers Gifford's acres which I can see from my office window', said General Manager Charles Boniface.

The smallest ones were about an acre in size, and this influenced the sorts of houses constructed during the Edwardian period; consequently the village reflects this glimpse of Edwardian elegance in its

This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to

But it may be that the final element of the name comes from the Norse word 'akr', indicating Viking settlement here – the Vikings certainly inhabited the county around Chester, but we will never know

It began in 1827, when a 14-acre farm was bought from Lord Donegall.

On the right, the narrow strip of park beyond the trees is the Common Acre, where the archers of Andover practised before going into battle under Henry V at Agincourt in 1415.

is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'.