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The thin small island is connected to Guards Club Park by a low cast-iron and wood footbridge which blocks the near channel (backwater) to boat navigation apart from kayaks. The island gets its alternative name from eel bucks [ 1 ] from which the footbridge was adapted in 1865 to allow access to its Guards Club Boathouse (since demolished).
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The 85-mile (137 km) long A595 is also known as the Cumbrian Coast Road despite much of the road following in an inland route. Starting at the Hardwicke Circus roundabout junction with the A7 in Carlisle, it forms a short section of dual carriageway known as Castle Way. This section passes Carlisle Castle and Tullie House. Prior to the ...
The park was originally part of the estate belonging to Braywick Lodge. [3] In 1969 the 19th-century mansion was demolished, but the stables were saved and refurbished in 1989 to provide a nature centre. [3] In 1999 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. [1]
The park covers an area of 22 acres (0.1 km 2). Opening times vary by season: park gates are opened at 07:00am and closed at/after dusk e.g. at around 16:00pm in mid-winter, and in the summer it can stay open 'til as late as 21:00pm; notices re park closing-times are posted on all three park entrances. [ 1 ]
The park was originally part of the estate belonging to Ockwells Manor Estate. [5] The Park was opened to the public during the 1980s. [ 5 ] In 1999 part of the site was declared as a local nature reserve by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
Boulter's Lock is a lock and weir on the River Thames in England north-east of Maidenhead town centre, Berkshire.The present 1912-built lock replaces those at this point of the river to the immediate east dating from the late 16th century and that of 1772 built by the Thames Navigation Commission.