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In the centre of Kingsbury is the drinking fountain installed in 1914; it was removed in 1929 when a bus station was erected in the Square, and later re-erected in the Vale Park (see Chapter 2)

Conduit Road runs north from Ock Street on the east side of the Albert Park estate, and the earliest buildings on it are this church group.

Moor Park was built in the 1720s for the banker and South Sea Bubble profiteer Benjamin Styles.

Covering 350 acres, Penshurst Park has many fine oaks; a chancel screen in St John the Baptistís church is made of Penshurst oak.

Looking across the park with the matured trees in the background.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

Nearby are Goodwood House and Park, built in 1660 and greatly extended in 1760. It is The Duke of Richmond's estate, and has fine art collections.

and the route of the old towpath can still be walked for considerable sections; but it is the pits left by extensive gravel extraction that have been developed to make the Cotswold Water Park

South of Ollerton is Rufford Country Park, run by the County Council.

A smart two-seater convertible is parked outside the imposing Barclays Bank, which had been built in 1910 as the Boston & Spalding Bank.

Archaeologists say that during the Dark Ages the village centre was north of the church, around what is now the car park opposite the Civic Hall.

Because Roundhay was on the outskirts of Leeds, transport to the Park was difficult; those who did venture along the old turnpike road found a beautiful site - but it lacked basic facilities.

It may look typical, but the park has an unusual distinction in that it forms Worcester's memorial to the Great War.

The park gates were on Pytchley Road.

At the end of the smart De Parys Avenue, Bedford Park was laid out to designs by the noted park designers William Barron and Sons from Derby in 1883 during Hawkins's first mayoralty.

The forceful manager of the tramways persuaded his committee to find the money to create paths to form a leisure park.

Today, Kippax tends to be a commuter town to Leeds, but three centuries ago it was home to the beautiful Kippax Hall and Park.

Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

An onslaught of traffic-controlling measures made necessary by the proximity of the entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel under the River Mersey has made parking at the kerbside an art form seldom

The main village was moved west and south of the Tilling Bourne and out of the park in the early 19th century, but the best buildings date from the 1850s.

Sefton Park has always had much to delight its visitors, and when the Palm House opened in 1896 thousands came to see it, along with the other glories of the Park.

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

Over the years, the Parks Department has been responsible for many fine floral displays commemorating special events.