Birkenhead Park
From Graces Guide
This is a major public park located in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
In 1841 an improvement commission proposed the idea of a municipal park. A local act of Parliament in 1843 allowed the use of public money to buy 226 acres of marshy land on the western edge of Birkenhead. The park was designed by Joseph Paxton and opened on 5 April 1847
The park is said to have influenced the design of Central Park in New York, following a visit by American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
See Wikipedia entry.
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