Points of Interest
The following features of the Parks are of special interest:
- Cricket pavilion — the pavilion was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson (who also designed the University's Examination Schools) and was completed in 1881.
- The only first-class cricket ground in the UK where spectators can watch free of charge.
- Seven large tree Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) planted in about 1888.
- A duck pond with water lilies and a small island, constructed in 1925.
- High Bridge, built in 1923–24 as a relief project for the unemployed. It is usually called Rainbow Bridge, because of its shape.
- Genetic Garden — an experimental garden established by Professor Cyril Darlington to demonstrate evolutionary processes.
- Styphnolobium japonicum, known as the Japanese Pagoda Tree. Planted in 1888.
- Coronation Clump, a clump of trees planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
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