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Chessington Garden Centre [7] is located in the south of the area near Malden Rushett. Chessington offers a range of countryside activities with many open spaces including the "Chessington Countryside Walk" in the London Green Belt .
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
Its first garden centre was Woodthorpe Hall, built on a farm. [6] In 2010, it acquired its fifth garden centre. [7] In 2018, the firm operated ten garden centres. [4] In 2019, the company acquired 37 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres. [8] In December 2019, the firm completed its acquisition of Hillview, a chain of eight garden centres. [9]
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
Bents Garden & Home. Bents is a garden, home and leisure destination in Glazebury, Warrington, England, that attracts over a million visitors annually. Established in 1937 by Alfred and Margaret Bent, it remains a family-owned and family-operated business and has evolved into one of the UK's biggest garden centres.
The Crooked Billet Ground also hosted cricket with Penge United playing matches there between 1856-58. [12] [13] [14] Sydenham Albion Cricket Club was using the field as their home ground in 1865. After the opening match of their season, "a very excellent lunch was provided on the ground by Mr Matthews, of the Crooked Billet Tavern, Penge." [15]
St Andrews Botanic Garden. The St Andrews Botanic Garden is an 18-acre botanical garden in the university town of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. It is located on the banks of the wooded Kinness Burn in the Canongate area, on the southern edge of the town. The gardens are supported by the University of St Andrews and Fife Council, and
Penge Common was an area of north east Surrey and north west Kent which now forms part of London, England; covering most of Penge, all of Anerley, and parts of surrounding suburbs including South Norwood. [1] It abutted the Great North Wood and John Rocque's 1745 map of London and its environs showed that Penge Common now included part of that ...