National parks in Great Britain differ significantly from similar places in other countries. Their originality lies in the fact that the territories are not some kind of abandoned areas, remote from large cities. They are landscaped areas in the suburbs, where everything is aimed at preserving natural values and reuniting people with them. Most of the national parks in the country are very reminiscent of botanical gardens or huge city parks.
This park was opened in 1992 and since then has been one of the most popular holiday destinations in Manchester. This green corner of Great Britain is divided into several territories that have separate purposes. In it you can not only walk under the shady trees, but also go in for sports. The special area is equipped with tennis and basketball courts, and there is also a football field. Not only local youth, but also families with children of all ages have an equally good time here.
Perhaps the most romantic place in the park can be considered an artificial lake located in the center. Couples in love often gather next to it to admire the landscape. Water lilies, water lilies, lotuses grow on the lake, and during their flowering the air is filled with an amazing aroma. Perhaps, the shores of the lake in Platt Fields Park see more than one hundred confessions every day.
The western part of the park area was created for the most active visitors. Fans of BMX skateboards and bicycles come here from all over Manchester, and sometimes from the UK. For them, a lot of springboards of various difficulty levels are equipped, for both experienced and novice athletes. They come here to extreme people and just take a look. In addition, the park is a great place for picnics: it has many picturesque places where you can retire and playgrounds to keep the kids busy. 
Dartmoor
As many as 650 kilometers of nature, practically untouched by man. The area is hilly, swampy in places, rich in rocks and valleys, a huge variety of representatives of the local flora and fauna. Here you can be alone with yourself, wander through the deserted spaces. Darmur is a site where archaeological excavations are often carried out. Druidic stones and ancient burial mounds dating back to 2000-500 BC have been found.
A whole third of the park is occupied by swamps. They are covered with a peat layer. By the way, the events of the novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" about Sherlock Holmes take place here. Walking here you can meet animals - cows, sheep and wild ponies. The local flora is no less rich: marsh grasses, mosses, heather, reeds are surprising. 
Since 1897 this place has been the home arena of the Aston Villa club, known far beyond the borders of Great Britain. During this time, this stadium has hosted 16 international matches with the England national team. By the way, this is the only stadium in the country where international football matches have been held for the third century. This arena has been awarded the fourth highest UEFA qualification.
Villa Park was not always like this: initially it was planned to hold not football matches here, but circuit races. But already in 1914 the running surface was removed, and the stadium acquired its modern appearance. It consists of four tribunes:
- Holt End;
- Trinity Road Stand;
- "Nord Stand";
- Doug Ellis Stand.
It is interesting that it was here that the last final of the Cup Winners' Cup (1998) was held.
You should definitely visit this place if you want to know what a classic park is in Great Britain. Prior Park is located in the city of Bath. A poet named Alexander Pole was the ideological inspiration for the creation of this place, while the gardener Brown performed it. The park was funded by Ralph Allen, who was an entrepreneur and philanthropist at the same time. From 1734 he began to invest his own funds in the arrangement of Prior Park, continuing this until his death (1764).
In just the first three years (by 1937), more than 55 thousand trees (mainly elms and pines) were planted in the valley. The lower part of the park has changed a lot: new artificial ponds with fish were dug here. A bridge was built across one of the lakes, based on the project of Andrea Palladio (in general, there are only four such bridges around the world). In the 1740s, the architect John Wood created a mansion here in the best traditions of the classical style (today it belongs to Prior Park College).
Historians from all over Great Britain love to come here, as in the park you can contemplate the remains of an Iron Age settlement, an old Roman settlement, Mrs. Allen's grotto and a Gothic cathedral. On the territory you can always find volunteer guides who will willingly turn a walk into an educational journey. You will have to come to the park by public transport, since the car park here is designed only for people with special needs. 
This is a wonderful amusement park in the UK, located in the resort town of Breen. Its total area is about 4 hectares, all of them are filled with attractions, cafes, restaurants, entertainment centers. It is not just there where to take a walk: the park will allow everyone to return to childhood and get an unforgettable experience. There is a good concert venue nearby where famous artists perform.
In Brean Leisure Park (Great Britain), some fragments of the film "Accident" were filmed.
It was founded back in 1946, right after the end of the Second World War. Once upon a time, there was a Unity Farm in its place. Over time, in 1970, a golf course was established, and after another 20 years - a swimming pool, bowling and a bar. 2006 was a decisive year for the park: many modern attractions were installed here. Their total cost was 1.2 million pounds sterling at that time.
This place is perfect for a family vacation. Here you can take a walk in the Terror Castle or test yourself at the XFactory go-kart. But lovers of zest will find the highest attraction in the park, Xtreme. New colors and heightened feelings are expected from this place, and expectations are more than justified.
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Kew Botanical Garden
The garden in Kew, Kew Gardens, or The Royal Botanic Gardens (area of 120 hectares) is very famous in England and abroad. It houses one of the largest botanical centers.
This garden was founded in 1670 by the herbalist and botanist William Turner (circa 1510 - 1568). After his death, the garden passed to Lord Capel, who began to grow in it fruit plants brought from France.
The garden united two royal estates: the eastern part of it occupied the lands of Kew House (founded in the middle of the 17th century, here for the first time in England oranges were grown), and the western - the lands of Richmond Gardens. Kew was separated from Richmond by the so-called path of love.
The Richmond Garden was created under the close tutelage of Queen Carolina. Bridgeman, the most fashionable landscape architect, took into account the natural features of the area when planning the garden.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, rented the land in 1730. Frederic's wife, Princess Augusta, decided to give the garden a botanical character. William Kent and then William Ayton were brought in to work in the garden. Ayton sent scientific expeditions to foreign countries for plants of interest to botany. In 1789 Ayton published a book listing 5,500 plant species grown at Kew.
George III (1760-1820) - the new owner of the garden - decided to re-plan it. For this work, he invited Brown, and later - Sir Joseph Banks, keen on botany. Joseph Banks sailed with Captain Cook, sent pickers to India, China, Chile and other countries. On his recommendation, about 7,000 new plant species were brought to England. Banks grew rare specimens in Kew for a year, and then shared them with other specialists. After the death of George III and Banks, the garden fell into disrepair.
The architect William Chambers (1723-1796) played an important role in the planning of the garden. A landscape park was created according to his project.
The initiator of the creation of the landscape park was the Palladian architect William Kent. In the 1730s, he laid out a landscape park at the Roseham estate in Oxfordshire.
The English landscape, or landscape, park is something completely opposite to the French regular park. Art critic M. Sokolova writes: “It is not the imperious subordination of natural forms to the laws of reason, but the skillfully created illusion of 'naturalness' that becomes the main creative task of the new generation of English gardeners. And this is not accidental: after all, the fact that a new type of park enters life is preceded and promoted by a very definite state of mind in English society at the beginning of the 18th century. "
In its purest form, this type of park is presented in the work of Lancelot Brown (1715-1785), nicknamed Capability Brown because he, talking with customers, kept repeating: "Your site has great potential"(in English " capabilities“).
W. Chambers found Brown's style too boring: “In an English garden, the viewer often does not know whether he is wandering through an ordinary meadow or an amusement garden, the imitation of nature is so accurate. There is so little variety and such a lack of judgment in the choice of objects, such a poverty of imagination that the visitor is mortally bored, curses the beautiful lines, until finally, overcome by fatigue, burned by the sun due to lack of shade and half dead due to lack of entertainment, decides on nothing don't look anymore. A vain intention. There is only one path, along which he must drag to the end, or go through the same tiresome road along which he walked in the opposite direction. And in order to achieve this, a lot of beautiful gardens must be cut down. Often, within one day, the ax cut down centuries-old groves. "
Chambers develops the principles of the oriental, namely the Chinese, garden. It offers a type of so-called surprise park: miniature temples, gazebos, bridges. Among the surprises that still exist in Kew, the most famous is the 50-meter-high (ten stories) Chinese pagoda, which faithfully reproduces the proportions and details of real pagodas. This building was built by Chambers in 1762, which is very symbolic - then in England there was an increased interest in the art of overseas countries. There were also temples of the Sun, Bellona, Pan, Zola, a mosque, the ruins of a Gothic church, etc.
The authors of the book "Art of the 18th century" write: “The expansion of ties with the East stimulated in England, as well as in other European countries, the emergence in the 40s of the 18th century of the fashion for the so-called“ Chineseism ”, which was, in essence, a superficial and relatively short-term passion for oriental exoticism, which found especially widespread in applied arts. As for Chambers, his approach to the art of the East was deeper than that of many of his contemporaries. In oriental art, Chambers saw the same embodiment of the laws of natural beauty and naturalness that his contemporaries saw in ancient art. His passion for the East, therefore, did not prevent him from developing the principles of Palladio, which he applied in his architectural practice. "
Chambers was born in Gothenburg to a Scottish merchant family. After completing his commercial education, he joined a Swedish-Indian company. At the age of twenty, William visited India and China, where he constantly made sketches of Indian and Chinese buildings. Soon he decided to devote himself to architecture and went to study in Paris.
For the first time, Chambers applied the new "Chinese style" in the park of Roxton Castle in Oxfordshire. And then the architect gained access to the Prince of Wales' estate in Kew. From that moment (1758-1759), he took up the planning of the famous gardens.
This new form of English park art has influenced the whole of Europe. On the continent, the Chamber's style was called "Anglo-Chinese", or the style of "parks with surprises." In 1763, Chambers published a description of Kew. And in 1772, when the taste for Chinese began to wane, he published a treatise on oriental gardening.
In 1841, Kew Gardens was transformed into the National Botanic Gardens, and William Hooker was appointed director.
Later, Hooker was replaced by his son, Joseph Dalton (he traveled around India and brought new species of rhododendron to England). In 1882, Miss Marianne North donated to the garden a collection of 850 paintings depicting plants and flowers.
Many exotic plants were grown in the Kew Botanical Gardens, which later found distribution in Europe (tea, coffee, cocoa, rubber plants, pineapple, banana, cinchona). At the beginning of the 18th century, yellow beetroot, Chinese carnation, Chinese aster, Veronica longifolia, Chinese saxifrage, dahlia, and sage were brought to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, calendrinia, phlox, aromatic musk, and ornamental currants appeared here. Tea merchant Reeves brought Chinese peonies, camellias, and azaleas to Kew. German Philip von Siebold brought here many Japanese plants. In the second half of the 19th century, a greenhouse was built in the garden for huge water lilies, and then for alpine plants. There is a large collection of Himalayan rhododendrons in the garden.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gladioli were brought from Africa to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (it is on this continent that the largest number of species of these flowers). The gladiolus gene pool collected at Kew later became the property of other botanical gardens in Europe and North America.
The interest in these plants was so great that in 1926, under the Royal Horticultural Society, the British Gladiolus Society was created, the first in Europe and the world, of which George Churchcher became president.
Cyon House is also one of the oldest and most famous gardens in Great Britain. Behind the house of the owner of the garden, the first Duke of Northumberland, there is a reservoir where wild ducks and herons live, and in front of the house there is a huge park. In this park grow Himalayan cedar, an ancient specimen of styrax, marsh cypress, many oaks. Flowering annual plants are collected in the garden's greenhouse. Here in 1855, for the first time in England, the mangosteen formed fruits. The garden pavilion sold everything needed for gardening enthusiasts (planting material, garden tools, books).
Bodnant Garden in North Wales, next to Mount Snowdon, is famous for its terraced plantings and lawns. Here grow roses of a wide variety of varieties, garden lilies, primroses. The garden contains a collection of rhododendrons and magnolias, amazingly beautiful snow-white Chinese eucripias and scarlet embotriums grow.
Nymans Handcross Garden is famous for its collection of rhododendrons, flowering shrubs, conifers and a collection of hybrid lilies.
In the Grange Garden in Kent, a large collection of Japanese cherries (200 species) is collected, rhododendrons and azaleas also grow here.
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Located in the southeast of Great Britain, the New Forest National Park is rightfully considered the largest of the country's reserves.
For the first time, New Forest was mentioned in the "Book of the Last Judgment" (medieval land census) in 1086. 90% of the 145 square miles of the territory, declared in 1079 by William the Conqueror of the Royal Forest and still belongs to the British crown. Over the past 900 years, the external appearance of the area has changed several times. The once dense forests were mercilessly destroyed for commercial purposes, which led to the almost complete disappearance of many representatives of the fauna.
Since the 19th century, New Forest has been gradually transforming into its original appearance. Mass planting of forests and their settlement with wild animals - deer, martens, foxes, roe deer, badgers and wild ponies (New Forest ponies) are resumed. Efforts to preserve the species diversity of insects and birds led to the fact that in 2005 it received the status of a National Park.
Today New Forest is an amazingly beautiful place with a unique variety of flora and fauna. Only deer in its territory is inhabited by as many as 4 species: spotted, noble, fallow deer and Chinese muntjak. In addition, the local population traditionally grazes their livestock here. In the park, you can meet both the well-known amphibians - the viper or copperhead, and the lesser-known crested newt. A distinctive feature of the reserve is centuries-old beeches and oaks, as well as quite rare plants - pulmonary gentian, several species of lamb and sundew.
To services of tourists who have decided to visit this picturesque corner, 4 hotels. These are Forest Lodge Hotel, Moorhill House Hotel, Beaulieu Hotel and Bartley Lodge Hotel. The most popular local attractions are in the village of Bewley. These are the Noble Manor House in Bewley and the National Engine Museum, which contains over 300 vintage cars.
To get an unforgettable experience and get in touch with nature, it is better to park the car, and ride a bike or walk in the park.
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A unique attraction in the UK is the Bempton Cliffs Seabird Reserve. It stretches for 10 kilometers in the coastal zone of East Yorkshire, and in some places reaches more than 100 meters in height.
Bempton Cliffs is home to over 200,000 nesting seabirds, including cormorants, puffins, and the only bird colony, the Gannets. The hard chalk of Bempton is relatively resistant to erosion and has many sheltered headlands and crevices suitable for bird nesting. There are convenient walkways along the top of the cliff, and there are also several fenced and well-protected observation points. On the territory of the reserve there is a tourist center that organizes exciting excursions to the picturesque corners of Bempton Cliffs. From the top of the cliffs, you can watch one of the largest seabird colonies in the UK and admire the breathtaking views of the sea beating against high cliffs.
On the territory of the reserve there is a cafe and a souvenir shop, which is popular with visitors.
It is one of the many public gardens that adjoin Alnvik Castle. It is located in England, in Northumberland. The castle is the second largest in Great Britain. Its most important feature is that it grows plants that can kill a person. The poisonous garden contains many dangerous plants.
Behind the large black gates, you can see about 100 varieties of narcotic plants that are prohibited by law. Various drugs are made from them, including opium. V Alnvik's garden can see Belladonna Atropa known as lethal, strychnine, nightshade, which is used to make hashish, hemlock, cocaine, and others.
It was organized relatively recently, but the history of other parks and gardens located near the castle began in the distant 1750. Only a few centuries later, the local gardening tradition was supplemented by dangerous plants.
Local gardens were created during the first Dukes of Northumberland, however, fell into disrepair during World War II. Nowadays, all the gardens are in perfect order and are very popular with tourists from all over the world.
The history of the renovation of the gardens has a lot to do with the current Duchess of Northmaberland. She became the owner of the castle in 2000, after which a project was launched for the reconstruction and restoration of beautiful gardens.
The poisonous garden was founded in 2005. The source of inspiration was the famous garden located in Italy, near Padua. In it, the Medici family grew a variety of poisonous plants in order to fight their enemies in such a sophisticated way. Initially, medicinal plants also grew in the garden, but over time they were removed to maintain the status of a poisonous garden.
Travelers and tourists looking to explore Alnvik gardens, can only do this in the company of a special guide, who makes sure that no one touches poisonous plants. In addition, signs are installed throughout the poisonous garden that warn of mortal danger.
Alnvik's garden is monitored around the clock, some plantations are fenced with barbed wire. The garden is designed to convey to people the idea of the dangers of drugs.
Contact Information:
Address: Denwick Lane, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1YU, UK
Phone: +44 1665 511350
