Attenborough Arboretum (Leicester)

United Kingdom / England / Wigston / Leicester / Carisbrooke Road, 5-23
 park, arboretum, botanical garden
The Attenborough Arboretum is a satellite facility of the Botanic Garden. Opened on 23 April 1997 by Sir David Attenborough, it occupies about about five acres, and forms part of the land that used to belong to Home Farm. (The old farmhouse still exists nearby and has been converted into maisonettes.) The Arboretum features possibly the only surviving example in the city of a medieval ridge-and-furrow field, and also contains two large ponds, complete with a well-constructed boardwalk to provide access for observation and pond-dipping.

www2.le.ac.uk/projects/botanic-gardens/gardarb/arb
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Coordinates:   52°36'31"N   1°6'53"W
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