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Willey is a small village in the civil parish of Barrow, south west of the town of Broseley, Shropshire, England. It is made up of about 4 farms and the majority of land is owned and leased by the Weld-Forester family of Willey Hall. Willey also sports a proud cricket team like many small villages around the United Kingdom.
The Estate, comprising some 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2), is bounded by Crystal Palace to the South, Denmark Hill to the North, part of Lordship Lane to the East, and Tulse Hill to the West. It is primarily situated in the inner London borough of Southwark, with small parts in the Lambeth and Lewisham, but has large areas of open space. The Estate ...
The scheme has raised over £67 million since it began, and normally opens over 3,500 gardens a year. [1] Volunteer County Organisers are responsible for vetting gardens to make sure they are of sufficient interest. [2] When the scheme began 609 private gardens were opened and £8,191 was raised.
A four-ox-team plough, circa 1330. The ploughman is using a mouldboard plough to cut through the heavy soils. A team could plough about one acre (0.4 ha) per day. The typical planting scheme in a three-field system was that barley, oats, or legumes would be planted in one field in spring, wheat or rye in the second field in the fall and the third field would be left fallow.
Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded by Henrietta Barnett, who, with her husband Samuel, had started the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Toynbee Hall.In 1906, Barnett set up the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd, which purchased 243 acres of land from Eton College for the scheme and appointed Raymond Unwin as its architect.
Japanese Garden as a part of Dendrological Garden in Przelewice near Pyrzyce, Poland. Reliable access is necessary for garden tourism. In China, from the Song dynasty onwards, famous private gardens such as the Classical Gardens of Suzhou seem often to have been opened to the public, either for "festivals and holidays", [2] or at certain seasons, [3] or some combination of the two.
The park features the Everton Park Nature Garden, a walled community garden with three ponds, bridges, paths, overhanging trees, a wildflower field, raised flower beds with seating, and colourful wild birds. Prince Rupert's Tower (a Georgian village lock-up), and St George's Church are also located within Everton Park. [2]
Google Earth's historical imagery feature shows that in 2000 much of the Chancellor Park area didn't exist, including much of the current housing, the Arrowhead Monument (created by Alan Threlfall), Chancellor Park Sports Area, Brook End Gardens or the Brookend Gardens Play Area. Bishop's Mead was a Housing Design Award winner in 2002.