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Event    From 1887 

Open Spaces Act, 1887

Categories: Gardens / Agriculture

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Open Spaces Act, 1887

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St Mary Magdalene Gardens

These grounds were laid out under the Open Spaces Act at the joint expense of...

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Battersea Park

Battersea Park

Created on marshland reclaimed from the River Thames and formerly used for market gardens, when it was known as Battersea Fields. Laid out by Sir James Pennethorne 1846-64. See Earl of Winchelsea ...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Shandy Park / East London Cemetery

Shandy Park / East London Cemetery

Shandy Park is a green space a few blocks due south of this site. It was opened in 1837 as the East London Cemetery with its own chapel, by local landowner, John Thomas Barber Beaumont. Beaumont ar...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Hogsmill River

Hogsmill River

Tributary of the Thames rising in Ewell, with five tributaries of its own. It was the setting for the John Everett Millais painting of Ophelia (pictured), although the model posed in a bath. Willia...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
William Curtis Ecological Park

William Curtis Ecological Park

The William Curtis Ecological Park was the United Kingdom's first urban ecology park. Max Nicholson and the Trust for Urban Ecology (created at the same time, by Nicholson) created it on a derelict...

Place, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Portman Square Garden

Portman Square Garden

Laid out and the plane trees planted following private Acts of Parliament of 1780 and 1823.

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial