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Parks and Gardens UK

Resource Area

In the resource area you will find additional supporting material for the articles, features and the educational resources that can be found throughout the website.

The resources include additional images, maps, plans and also audio files of oral histories about life in and around the historic parks and gardens of the United Kingdom, in MP3 format.

Illustrated Glossary

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The Illustrated Glossary provides definitions and accompanying images for terms  and concepts associated with historic designed landscapes.

 

  "Explore"

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This area contains images and resources to accompany articles about historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes in the Explore section. Resources include:

  • Deer Parks
  • Pulhamite
  • Theraputic Landscapes.....
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Oral Histories

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This resources contains oral histories gathered from people’s memories of South Marine Park, South Shields, and are typical of parks across the country.

Oral Histories continue to be collected and more will be added soon.

 

  Hestercombe Virtual Archive

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The Hestercombe virtual archives include digitised copies of the documents and plans used during the 1970s restoration of the Formal Garden at Hestercombe.
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School Zone

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This resource area includes images for using with activities for schoolchildren and young people. Resources include:

  • Public Parks
  • Playgrounds from the past
  • Park Features
  • Looking after a park.....
 

Activity Sheets  

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Downloadable activity sheets have been designed to enable families and young children to have fun whilst exploring parks and gardens. The sheets can be used by children individually or as part of a group, family or school visit.