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The entrance to the garden is marked by a striking neo-Norman stone arched gate which is topped with a sculpture of an eagle; this was originally a feature on the Spread Eagle Hotel on Corporation Street, Manchester, of which Fletcher Moss was proprietor. When the hotel was demolished in 1902, Moss took the eagle effigy and mounted it on his gate.
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Gardens in England is a link page for any garden, botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum open to the public in England. The National Gardens Scheme also opens many small, interesting, private gardens to the public on one or two days a year for charity.
Moss is a village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 Census was 389, [1] an increase from 290 at the 2001 Census. [2] From 1871 to 1953 the village was served by Moss railway station. [3]
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
The Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden is a 21-acre (8-hectare) recreational park south of the village centre. It is named after local Alderman Fletcher Moss, who donated the park to the city of Manchester in 1919. [69] In 2008, it won the Green Flag Award, the national standard for parks and green spaces in England, [70] an award it has held since ...
MapQuest's original services were mapping (referred to as "Interactive Atlas") and driving directions (called "TripQuest"). [ 5 ] Sensing the emerging demand for spatial applications on the Internet, and with crippling network latency in Lancaster, the executive team of Barry Glick and Perry Evans moved MapQuest to the up-and-coming LoDo area ...
RSPB Leighton Moss is a nature reserve in Lancashire, England, which has been in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds since 1964. [1] It is situated near Silverdale , Carnforth , on the edge of Morecambe Bay and in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty .