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Belvoir Castle has partially reconstructed and restored gardens, originally laid out by the 5th Duchess of Rutland in 1799. The individual gardens were much influenced by Italian terraced gardens, which the Duchess observed on her Grand Tour.
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Baggrave Hall has an 18th-century park with a late 19th-century waterside garden.
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Coleorton Hall has early 19th-century ‘Picturesque’ style gardens of 21 hectares which include woodland, and pools. The garden has literary and artistic connections, used as a source of inspiration by Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott and John Constable.
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Egerton Lodge is a Grade II listed building, now a nursing home. The terrace and gardens around it belong to the Borough Council, and have been developed as memorial gardens. The significant memorial feature of the gardens is the terrace, which features commemorative plaques. The terrace was restored in 2008. There are also two island beds in the shape of the Victoria Cross.
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Exton Park is run as a traditional country estate and has the remains of an extensive deer park and woodland, as well as gardens around the house. The park was landscaped in the 18th century and also contains 19th-century features, including the ruins of the original Tudor mansion.
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Wistow Hall is a 17th-century country house in Wistow, Leicestershire, England which has been converted into an apartment building. It is Grade II* listed.[1] The Hall was built to an H-plan of rendered brick with a Swithland slate hipped roof. It has a seven window frontage with two storeys of sash windows and a row of dormer windows in the roof behind a parapet. At each corner are turret buttresses.
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Westbrooke House in Leicestershire is a late Victorian property built in 1887 with six acres of gardens approached via a tree lined driveway of mature limes and giant redwoods. The Walled Kitchen Garden is located a very short distance to the west of Westbrooke House. Near to the NE of Westbrooke House were stables attached to outbuildings. (O/S 1900 & 1926).
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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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Category: NW LeicestershireThe Memorial Field was established in 1951 as a memorial to the ex-school boys of Ashby Grammar School who had fallen in the World Wars. There is a bronze plaque on a boulder on the edge of the field which commemorates their sacrifice. The site is recorded on the Imperial War Museum register of war memorials. The opening of the field in 1851 was celebrated by a rugby match by the Leicester Rugby Club and a celebration dinner at the Royal Hotel.
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The Argents Mead is a park in the Centre of Hinckley Town Centre it is also the historical centre of Hinckley and includes the Mound on which Hinckley Castle once stood. The site is now managed by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council as an area of public open space. Hinckley Leisure Centre opened in 2015 is adjacent to the site and both the leisure centre and the park provide the main recreational hub for the town.