All Urban Spaces
Urban Spaces are squares and space within the urban fabric of a town. May not be fenced. Usually surrounded by buildings. Usually owned by a public body.
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Queen’s Park is a small Victorian urban park of approximately four hectares. Its ornamental layout includes walks, flowerbeds and shrubberies. It is also well-wooded.
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Wigston Peace Memorial Park features a bowling green, sensory garden, sports courts, oak peace sculpture and a pavilion. The sensory garden has raised beds and a rill with fountains.
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New Walk is a late-18th-century urban public walk, extending for 1100 metres, developed in the 19th century with residences and some public buildings.
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Garden incorporating a Portland Stone Cross , at entrance, surrounded by 54 trees to mark each fallen soldier. WW1 soldiers have 44 lime trees; WW2 soldiers have 10 almond trees. Also features two tennis courts, a bowling green and a recreation ground.
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Narborough Memorial Park features a children’s play area, tennis courts and a shelter. A sensory garden was added in 2010.
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The gardens at Belgrave Hall date back to the early-18th century and have been altered and added to up to the late-20th century. They include an open lawned area with shrubberies and a formal walled garden with surviving early 18th-century walls and internal layout. The house now functions as a museum.
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Kirby Muxloe Memorial Park commemorates the dead of both World Wars and subsequent conflicts. The site features a war memorial, with slate tablets naming the dead. The tablets were recently replaced and the memorial and gates have been cleaned and refurbished.
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Sileby War Memorial Park features a Grade II listed cenotaph which has recently been renovated (2014). The cenotaph bears a wreath on the front with the names of the fallen inscribed on slate tablets on the front and side faces.