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The Valley Gardens are 220 acres (0.89 km 2) of woodland garden, part of the Crown Estate located near Englefield Green in the English county of Surrey, on the eastern edge of Windsor Great Park. The Valley Gardens and the nearby Savill Gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens .
The first part of the 676-unit Windsor Gardens apartment complex opened in 1962. [16] After several years of negotiations, Windsor Gardens station opened on March 29, 1971 to serve the complex. [1] [17] It was initially served by two daily round trips; a local official expected it to "lift a mile of traffic off the Southeast Expressway a day". [17]
Windsor Forest and Great Park is a 1,778.9-hectare (4,396-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire and Surrey, located south of Windsor. [1] [2] It is a Special Area of Conservation [3] and Windsor Forest is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] Landscaped woodland gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic ...
During her long widowhood, when she rarely visited London, Victoria spent much of her time at Windsor and at Frogmore. [6] She undertook further building work in the gardens, employing Samuel Sanders Teulon to construct the teahouse. [7] Historic England gives a construction date of 1869. [8]
The Savill Building is a visitor centre at the entrance to The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, England designed by Glen Howells Architects, Buro Happold and Engineers Haskins Robinson Waters. It was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 26 June 2006.
Eric Savill (1895–1980) was the grandson of Alfred Savill the founder of a large firm of estate agents and was involved in managing Windsor Great Park from 1930 to 1970, being Director of Gardens from 1962 to 1970. He opened the Savill Garden to the public in 1951 and left it as a heritage to the nation.
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