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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscaped the grounds of this 1800-acre estate, which opened to the public in 1950 and now attracts over 300,000 visitors each year.

A campsite of 450 acres was provided free of charge by the then Birkenhead Corporation.

A campsite of 450 acres was provided free of charge by the then Birkenhead Corporation.

The Grammar School was then rebuilt on its three-acre site and opened on 25 October 1897 by the Earl of Crewe.

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and paid for the art gallery it housed.

The relative peace and stability of the period meant that less emphasis was put on fortification and more on decoration, hence Longleat's acres of windows, which gave plenty of light but would have been

There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.

A vast 450-acre greenfield site at Dalton was acquired for the construction of the new works.

Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.

The Heath, extending from Kenwood House in the north to an area around Parliament Hill in the south, occupies some 800 acres; it has been popular with artists and authors (and the Gordon Rioters) since

Enclosed from Enfield Chase in 1777, and acquired by royal physician Sir Richard Jebb, Trent Park covered some two hundred acres.

The Roman fort once enclosed several acres of coastal land and must have been a powerful stronghold for the occupying army.

James Atherton, who bought the 170 acres of land on this north-east corner of Wirral, had to modify his original grand plans.

In July 1929 the 423 acre park was turned over to the Boy Scouts for the world's first Scout Jamboree.

This 33-acre lake was constructed from an old quarry.

They covered 19 acres, including seven for a nursery garden.

Yet the family who had done so much to establish Cardiff,had driven the South Wales coal industry, had built the gothic fancy Castell Coch, and boasted an estate of 22,000 acres passed on a mere £437 as

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscaped the grounds of this 1800-acre estate, which opened to the public in 1950 and now attracts over 300,000 visitors each year.

This became the main park for Minehead in 1924 following private donations towards a scheme for the conversion of 6 acres of meadows.

Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.

Covering some 500 acres, the park was probably in existence in Saxon times; it was disparked and became farmland in the 17th century.

Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed produce very fine venison.

The Duke of Clarence opened the Technical and Art College on the site of the old Thornes House in 1891, and this adjacent park (29 acres), once grazing land, was opened to the public on 6 July

He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess