Rowntree Park
Riverside memorial park with a shallow serpentine lake, lychgate dovecote and antique iron gates.
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This guide to Rowntree Park in York begins in the summer of nineteen twenty-one, when a chocolate firm handed the city a riverside meadow instead of a stone monument. It follows the Cocoa Works staff who went to the First World War, a Quaker employer with firm views on obelisks, and a lake dug deliberately shallow. Best heard standing on the hump-backed bridge by the red lychgate.
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