Public Walks
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Belle View Reservoir
History Trevor Buck (in a paper entitled ‘Corporation Oaks’, 1983) tells us that Thomas Hawksley (1807 – 1893), ‘the greatest water engineer of the age’, was the force behind the […]
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Whistons green spaces
The lepers of st Leonards needed green spaces as well. fortunately the land adjoining the north end of their site was theirs. So when in 1852 land was released to become Elm […]
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Corporation Oaks Tree Planting
Corporation Oaks (above), by kind permission of Christine Drew of The Mapperley and Sherwood History Group. Corporation Oaks was officially opened by a tree planting on 11 February 1850. This […]
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