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MILTON KEYNES'S first known resident once swam around in the area now known as Caldecotte Lake.

Along the opposite bank, next to the present day garden centre, is the start of the 73 mile-long Dales Way to Bowness in the Lake District.

He called the house Egremont to remind him of where he was born in the Lake District. He also had a hand in developing New Brighton.

Williamson Park was begun in the late 1860s as a scheme for the unemployed; they were to turn the bleak moorland and the quarries, that had once provided so much stone for the building of Lancaster

A magnificent palm house, lake and conservatory were also part of this lovely park.

Eridge Old Park is a deer park with a large lake; there is also an observatory tower on Saxonbury Hill on the site of an Iron Age hill-fort. Shernfold Park is a Victorian house of 1853.

Eridge Old Park is a deer park with a large lake; there is also an observatory tower on Saxonbury Hill on the site of an Iron Age hill-fort. Shernfold Park is a Victorian house of 1853.

Sailing was one of the favourite pastimes of the wealthy late 19th-century 'off-comers' who built houses close to the shore of the lake.

The ornate drinking fountain with its road signs to Ambleside, Kendal, Bowness and the lake has been removed since 1955 - presumably it was a hazard on this now busy junction.

The view has altered dramatically in one hundred years - a mass of buildings has sprung up on the facing hill slope, and the Heath has become literally a wooded park with lakes.

In the 1920s, Arthur Lake was the landlord - he was a familiar sight pushing his hand-cart from Hemel Hempstead, where he collected the spirits for sale at the Bell.

Gawthorp Hall was demolished, and its foundations now lie beneath the lake.

Its original front was re-erected in Kettlethorpe Hall, where it remains, in good order, at the end of the lake.

The lake was created in 1744, with the intention that a walk around its shores would be an allegory of Aeneas's voyage after the fall of Troy.

A pond was enlarged and stocked with fish from the ornamental lake at Woodcote Park. This froze solid in January, and was soon covered with bricks and old tin cans.

The Town Clerk, Mr Aitken, had provided swans and waterfowl to stock the lake which had been created, and the Accrington Brick and Tile Company had donated several terra-cotta vases which had been placeed

The monument has 112 steps to the top of the tower, where spectacular views of Morecambe Bay and the Lake District can be enjoyed from the lantern room.

The winters during the Great War were particularly cold, and when the lake froze over Mrs Forbes gave permission for the local people to skate there.

His design also included 'three conveniences suitably clad' and a small lake in the centre of the park, which had to be filled in during the 1920s because of problems with leakage.

Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane. That was certainly well used, sometimes by as many as 1,000 people.

An enclosed deer park, a boating lake, a cricket ground, and a review ground were among its original features when it was opened by HRH Prince Arthur (the third son of Queen Victoria) on Monday, 20 May

Leaders of popular culture have a stupefying arrogance, loathing any sort of individuality; they are able to dish out criticism, but not to take it.

The redevelopment of Botchergate is just the latest stage in the long-term rebirth of the great border city, continuing the process begun in the late 20th century.

While the Lanes attracted money into the city from shoppers, a second project undertaken in the 1980s was intended to provide new facilities for the local population.