Wavertree Botanic Gardens

Wavertree Botanic Park and Gardens

Type	public
Location	Wavertree, Liverpool
Created	1846^[1]
Operated by	Liverpool City Council
Status	Open all year

Wavertree Botanic Gardens (formerly Wavertree Botanic Garden and Park) is an example of a mid 19th century public park. It incorporates an earlier walled botanic garden, founded by William Roscoe as Liverpool Botanic Garden and relocated from land near Mount Pleasant in the 1830s.^[2] The gardens include the Grade II curator's lodge built between 1836-1837.

References

^ http://liverpool.gov.uk/leisure-parks-and-events/parks-and-greenspaces/wavertree-botanic-gardens/
^ Botanic Garden and Wavertree Park, Geograph Britain and Ireland, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/64705, retrieved 2011-10-05

External links

Liverpool City Council Website

[The history of Wavertree Botanic and the surrounding area is contained in the book The Light of Other Days by John Hussey ISBN 978-1-906823-22-1 obtainable from bookstores and http://www.countyvise.co.uk.

Parks and open spaces in Liverpool

Abercromby Square • Allerton Tower Park • Anfield Crematorium Gardens • Belle Vale Park • Calderstones Park • Canalside Park • Chavasse Park • Church of St Luke • Clarkes Gardens • Croxteth Hall and Country Park • Devonfield Garden • Everton Park • Falkner Square • Gambier Terrace • Greenbank Park • Newsham Park • Otterspool Promenade and Park • Princes Park • Reynolds Park • Sefton Park • Speke and Garston Coastal Reserve • Speke Hall • Springfield Park • Springwood Crematorium Gardens • St. James Mount and Gardens • St. John's Gardens • St. Nicholas Church Gardens • Stanley Park • Walton Hall Park • Warbreck Park • Wavertree Botanic Gardens • Wavertree Playground ("The Mystery") • Woolton Woods and Camphill