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Chinese Miners' Memorial Garden. Beside Ross Lake is the Chinese Miners' Memorial Garden, created over a two-year period by the Ross volunteer group Westland Regional Environment Incorporated Society (WRENIS) led by Biddy Manera, at a cost of $180,000. [8] It includes a Chinese pavilion (liang ting) and ornamental tree planting. [21]
Wayne-Westland operates David Hicks Elementary School in Inkster. [23] The portions of Inkster that are located in the Wayne-Westland district are zoned to Hicks. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] One portion of the Hicks zone is assigned to Marshall Upper Elementary School, [ 26 ] Stevenson Middle School in Westland, [ 27 ] John Glenn High School , all in ...
Ditchingham Hall is an English country house, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England, which is set in about 2,000 acres (810 ha) of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown. The Hall is about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Ditchingham off the B1332 road between Bungay , Suffolk and Norwich .
Hong Kong Wetland Park is a conservation, education and tourism facility, located at the northern part of Tin Shui Wai, in Yuen Long. It was to be an ecological mitigation area (EMA) for the wetlands lost due to Tin Shui Wai New Town development, in the New Territories.
The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...
During Henry's reign, the palace had no designated banqueting house, the King preferring to banquet in a temporary structure purpose-built in the gardens. The Keeper of the Banqueting House was a position enhanced by Mary I by designating it in relation to a building of the same name at a different palace, Nonsuch Palace , near the south edge ...
Wavertree Botanic Garden and Park is a mid-19th century public park in Liverpool, England. Originally constructed as a private botanic garden, it was taken over by Liverpool Corporation in 1846 and expanded into a public park. The park is Grade II* listed in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140 ha), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.