Victoria Gardens, Neath
The Victoria Gardens are a Grade II registered park in the town centre of Neath, Wales. The park was opened for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on 22 June 1897 and officially re-opened as Victoria Gardens on 30 June 1898. It has been described as "a quintessential Victorian urban public park" and has most of its original layout and features intact, including a bandstand, a bronze statue of Howell Gwyn, Gorsedd stones, and inclined flowers beds that display carpet bedding designs.
References
- Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales — Glamorgan. Cardiff: Cadw, Welsh Assembly Government. 2000. p. 122. ISBN 1 85760 153 X.
- "Victoria Gardens, Neath". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301662/details/VICTORIA+GARDENS%2C+NEATH/. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- "Victoria Gardens, Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales". Parks & Gardens Data Services Ltd, Department of Archaeology, University of York. http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,3371/Itemid,292/. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
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