Manchester Zoological Gardens

Manchester Zoological Gardens
Date opened	1838
Date closed	1842
Location	Broughton, Salford, England

The Manchester Zoological Gardens opened in 1838, on a 15-acre (6 ha) site between Broom Lane and Northumberland Street in Broughton, now in Salford, England. Attractions included a Grand Menagerie, a lake, a maze, an archery ground, and a series of landscaped walks. The gardens were opened in 1838, by a company of local business men, on land rented from the Rev. John Clowes of Broughton Hall, who had himself become interested in botany and horticulture in later life.^[1]^[2] For some years the gardens competed with John Jennison's, Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, which had opened three years earlier, but the venture was commercially unsuccessful and closed in 1842. Some of the animals were acquired by the Belle Vue Zoo, others went to the London Zoo and to Hampton Court.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Anon (7 January 2009). "Manchester Zoological Gardens, Salford, Greater Manchester, England". Parks and gardens UK. Parks & Gardens Data Services Ltd.. http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,6245/Itemid,292/. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
^ Ellwood, Christine; Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists: including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. pp. 155. ISBN 0-85066-843-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ugo0BqRRIPIC&pg=PA155&dq=Rev+John+Clowes+botanist&hl=en&ei=7O9ETJHXMI780wTWg-ilDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Rev%20John%20Clowes%20botanist&f=false. Retrieved 20 July 2010.

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