A park is any of a number of geographic features. Park - Hunting parks and the parks of country houses. Originally, the term referred to an area maintained as open space where residences, industry and farming were not allowed, often originally so that nobility might have a place to hunt. These were known for instance, as deer parks (deer being originally a term meaning any wild animal). Many country houses in Britain and Ireland still have parks of this sort, which since the 18th century have often b ...

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• Park - Linear parks
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The large public park which gives the area its name was one of the first of the great London parks that appeared in Victorian times. It was designed in the 1850s but was not actually completed until a little while later, in 1869. The park's name is explained by the fact that it was designed for the recreational use of the people of Finsbury, which at that time was a large London borough stretching from east central London all the way to the new park's southern boundary. Today, most of Finsbury has been swallowed up by the borough of Islington, but the con ...

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An urban park is a park that is built in cities mostly to reduce air pollution and as a place to relax. The design and maintenance is mostly done by city government. Some parks have a playground, transportation unit, large pond, sports field, etc. Some well-known urban parks include: Central Park in New York City, New York Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington Other related archivesBritish Columbia, C

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In Australia: College Park, South Australia is a suburb of Adelaide In Canada: College Park (Toronto) is the name of a former Eaton's department store building in Toronto, Canada, which is now a retail, office and residential complex. In the United States of America: College Park, Georgia College Park, Maryland ...

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Arizona State Parks is the name of the state agency that manages the state parks system of the U.S. state of Arizona. See List of Arizona state parks ...

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Amusement park is the more generic term for a collection of and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, as an amusement park is meant to cater to adults, teenagers, and small children. An amusement park may be permanent or temporary, usually periodic, s ...

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Algonquin Provincial Park is a Provincial Park in central Ontario, Canada. Algonquin Park is the fourth largest park in Ontario, covering about 7,725 square kilometres. Its size, combined with its relative proximity to the major urban centres of Toronto and Ottawa make it one of the most popular parks in the province. Highway 60 runs through the south of the park, while the Trans-Canada Highway bypasses it to the north. Over 1500 lakes and 1200 kilometres of streams and rivers are located within the park, including Canoe Lake a ...

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Parking lot is the American English term that refers to a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles. Usually, the term refers to a dedicated area that has been provided with a durable or semi-durable surface. In Great Britain and other Commonwealth countries, parking lots are known as car parks which is usually applied to a surface car park, as opposed to a multi-storey car park. Parking lot - General information. The usual parking lot in the United States is paved ...

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Alexander Parkes (December 29, 1813 - June 29, 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He developed the first form of celluloid. The son of a brass lock manufacturer, Parkes was apprenticed to a brass founder at Messenger and Sons before going to work for George amd Henry Elkington, who patented the electroplating process. Parkes was put in charge of the casting department, and his attention soon began to focus on electroplating, a recently discovered process. Parkes took out his first patent (No. 8005) ...

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Bryant Park is a 9.603 acre (39,000 m²) public park located in New York City. It is bounded by Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue (officially, Avenue of the Americas), 40th Street and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. The main branch of the New York Public Library is in the park. Although part of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Bryant Park is managed by the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation. Bryant Park - History. While it was still a wilderness, New York's colonial governor Thoma ...

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Yarra Park has become the premier sporting precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and numerous sporting fields and ovals, including the associated sporting complexes of Melbourne Park and Olympic Park. The park and sporting facilities are located in the suburb of East Melbourne. Tree-lined paths run parallel to Punt road and Swan street, and criss-cross the park. Some of the lawns are used for parking for sporting events. Two footbridges allow pedestrians and cyclists ...

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Anshi National Park is a national park located in the North Kannada district of Karnataka, in India. The national park encompasses the forests of Anshi and Dandeli. This park is the home of the rare black panther. Other related archivesIndia, Karnataka, North Kannada, black panther

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Borough Park (sometimes rendered as Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the New York City, USA borough of Brooklyn. Borough Park contains one of the largest religious Jewish communities outside of Israel. It is home to many groups of Orthodox Judaism including the Bobover, Belz, Satmar, Vizhnitz, Munkacz, Spinka, and Puppa sects of Hasidim. Other related archivesBelz, Bobover, Brooklyn, Hasidim, Israel, Jewish, Munkacz, New York City, Orthodox Judaism, Puppa, Satmar, Spinka, Vizhnitz, boro

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Deer Park may refer to: Deer Park - Place names. Deer Park, California, USA Deer Park, Florida, USA Deer Park, Illinois, USA Deer Park, Maryland, USA Deer Park, Michigan, USA, an unincorporated community in Luce County, Michigan Deer Park, New York, USA Deer Park, Texas, USA Deer Park, Washington, USA Deer Park, Wisconsin, USA Deer Park, a city in Ohio, located approximately 10 miles north of downtown Cincinnati, ...

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A water park is an amusement park that features waterplay areas, such as water slides, splash pads, spraygrounds (water playgrounds), lazy rivers, or other recreational bathing environments. Water parks in more current states of development may also be equipped with some type of artificial surfing or bodyboarding environment such as a wave pool or a FlowRider. Water park - Evolution of waterparks. The very idea for a water park may have been inspired by a Hungarian spa. Some waterparks are more spa-oriented ...

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. AutoZone Park is a minor league baseball stadium located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee and the home of the Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League, the AAA affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. It was built at cost of over $80,000,000, by far the most ever spent on a structure dedicated to minor league baseball. It has a seating capacity of 12,512, and has been aptly described as "one-third" of a major league baseball park. It was built to "big-league" standards, the primary difference being the absence of outfield seat ...

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A business park or business estate is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. All of the work that goes on is commercial, not industrial or residential. These are popular in many suburban locations, where it is cheaper to develop land because of the lower land costs and the lower building costs for building wider, not necessarily higher. They are also often located near motorways or main roads. Criticism of business parks often relates to the failure of business parks to relate to the urban fabric o ...

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Coole Park, owned by Lady Gregory, is best known for its swans which appeared in W B Yeats's poem, Wild Swans at Coole. Lady Gregory was a friend of W B Yeats, and she invited him to stay there. W B Yeats was inspired by the beauty of the swans and hence wrote Wild Swans at Coole. For context, see W B Yeats See also. Gort ...

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The Virunga National Park lies from the Virunga Mountains, to the Ruwenzori Mountains, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering Volcans National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori National Park in Uganda. Covering 7,800 km² it was established in 1925 as Africa's first National Park. It is also the second in the world after Yellowstone, and was classified as a World Heritage Site in 1971. In later years it has become known for its mountain gorillas, although poaching and the Congo Civil War have seriously damaged its wildlife population. The Park is managed by the Congolese National Park Authorities, the ...

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