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It opened in 1885, with ten more acres being added later.

The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners.

In the early 14th century, Sir Richard Hoghton and his wife, Sybilla de Lea, presided over an estate which was was already over 40,000 acres.

Townspeople loved the green area, calling it 'God's acre', and showing little interest in the 'Keep off the Grass' signs.

The estate is over 2,000 acres, much of which is farmed.

Entering the town, you may see some of the following: several acres of Victorian housing, from railway-side terraces to detached, self-confident villas; a church with a nice green spire; a white

This pub also had a twenty-acre farm behind.

It occupies 2,500 acres in parts of Richmond, Kingston, Mortlake and Putney parishes; the largest open space in London.

From 1959, the 450-acre site was slowly developed as a pioneer shopping park.

Wood Green Farm still cultivates acres of pasture on the north bank of the Severn as far as Burlish Top, but changes came about after World War II.

Three acres of rundown cafes, souvenir shops and a wooden arcade were cleared, and a new dual-carriageway swept down the hill offering a clear panoramic view of the sands and bay.

left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling the air

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and she gave some of the money back to pay for the art gallery it was to house.

The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.

Also, there were about 1,300 acres of complete wasteland, half of which had no owner.

Portsmouth Football Club The club was established on 5 April 1898, when six local businessmen bought five acres of land close to Goldsmith Avenue for £4,950 and formed Portsmouth Football Club.

However, it would be over 50 years before the General Enclosure Act was passed in 1858, which would enable further parts of the Heath to be enclosed, and the skeletal structure of the town to

The developers had created building plots of an acre each all over the Edge, but the farmers were not ready to pay developers' prices for their land, and the general gloom at the sale seems to

By the time he had taken out his 48 acres and added them on to the estate of Four Oaks Hall, the shape of the Park had been changed forever.

For a number of years the five acre site stood in splendid isolation with magnificent views of the sea across open fields which had formerly been Clacton's first golf course and was later to become

For years seventeen acres of canalside land has been left vacant and derelict, a depressing backdrop to the modern, eye-catching new art gallery.

The centre for this was a site of many acres behind the houses on Marine Terrace facing the golden sands.

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.