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The arboretum in the city of Derby is believed to be England's oldest public park.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* The arboretum in the city of Derby is believed to be England's oldest public park. It was presented to the city by local worthy Joseph Strutt in 1840. Along with the park, Mr. Strutt also gave the city a fine statue of a boar, based on a 17th-century Florentine original. The boar statue stood in Derby's arboretum for a hundred years until the Luftwaffe, aiming for the city's nearby Rolls-Royce engineering works, knocked its head off. The decapitated statue was then removed. Fast-forward to the present day. The city council has been mulling over plans to restore the arboretum in its historic form, and their plans ...
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