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Originally built by Sir Drummond Wolfe in the early 18th century and later extended, this luxury hotel with 80 rooms, three acres of gardens and its own well, was immensely popular with the leading stars

Covering nearly eight acres of ground, it was constructed to Sir Charles Barry's design, although its intricate ornament and detailing were conceived and wrought by that master of Victorian Gothic

In all, with additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath

With a water surface of ninety acres and surrounded by open spaces, Hollingworth Lake became a popular destination for workers on their days off.

At that time John Spencer, a Warwickshire sheep farmer, acquired the estate and created a park of some 300 acres here.

Covering nearly eight acres of ground, it was constructed to Sir Charles Barry’s design, although its intricate ornament and detailing were conceived and wrought by that master of Victorian Gothic

The 188 acres of Healey Dell became a Nature Reserve in 1976.

The tower was part of a 35-acre development that also included Tower Buildings and Tower Gardens.

At 22 acres, Manningtree is the smallest parish in Essex; it is also the smallest town in England.

This is the largest freshwater lake in Yorkshire, covering 467 acres; it is two miles long and one mile wide.

It was rural, bucolic scenes like this one at 600-acre Quince Farm that inspired Tennyson to write a poem of 47 words while visiting the area one summer's day in the 1860s.

The structure covers two and a half acres and is in the shape of an irregular oblong.

The park is a vast open space, 1,760 acres in area and seven miles around.

Leckhampton Hill, and the surrounding four hundred acres of grassland, were purchased by Cheltenham Town Council in 1929, and the area is now designated as a Site of Special Scientific

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

Since the 12th century, markets have been held on this cobbled square - it covers over 3 acres.

The War Office purchased over 1600 acres of land here in 1863, and by 1903 camps had been constructed for troops returning from the Boer War.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

The largest continuously inhabited medieval castle in the world, it covers thirteen acres.

Just outside the village is the beautiful 560-acre Godmersham Park, the home down the centuries of the Valoigns, Astyns and Broadnaxes.

Its 100 acres of trees are recorded on an ancient woodland inventory and it is still an area of natural beauty.

The problem was solved in 1787 by the construction of a three-acre dock here.

The house is recorded in 1910 as being in 'a well wooded park of 300 acres'.

In 1967, one of the Georgian residences with seven bedrooms, two acres and a heated-swimming pool cost £20,000.