Officially the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, it was conceived by a French civil engineer and modeled after the Champs-Élysées in Paris as a scenic path for the wealthy to get from Manhattan to the large parks of the Bronx.
Concerns were raised in Parliament that poorer industrial workers in Chelsea, which had no large parks of its own, would be unable to afford to use the new park in Battersea.
Its 50 acres (20 hectares)—perhaps the largest park of its kind in the world—house some 600 species of birds.
A folly, Conygar Tower, was constructed by architect Richard Phelps to improve the view from the castle, and a larger park of 141 hectares (348 acres) was built just to the south of the castle, requiring the eviction of a number of tenant farmers.
A raid on the V-2 rocket production site in a large park north of The Hague dropped 67 tons of bombs on a residential area on 1 March 1945, largely because the briefing officer had got the map coordinates wrong.
Sasaki envisions the Olympic site as becoming a large park, with each of the major buildings taking on a public function.
"Tiergarten", named after a large park in Berlin of the same name, is a song about Wainwright's German boyfriend, Jörn Weisbrodt.
Instead of one large park, you'll find a series of parks.
The large park, approximately the size of Wales, has experienced the highest number of killings.
The group, in its first assessment of large park properties, looked at 45 parks, from 20 to 500 acres, in all five boroughs.
