Heaton Park
Vast historic parkland with a Georgian hall, boating lake and a relocated Greek-style colonnade.
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This guide to Heaton Park in Manchester stands you beside the boating lake, in front of a row of Greek columns that seem to belong to a temple. It reaches back to the eighteen-twenties, to the architect Francis Goodwin and a sandstone building on King Street in the heart of town, and to the campaigners who argued over its fate in nineteen twelve. Best heard close enough to the columns to read the carving along the top.
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