Trentham Gardens retail village wooden buildings
The gardens and park at Trentham currently cover some 300 acres ( km²). The landscape architecture was designed as a serpentine park by Capability Brown and Henry Holland from 1758 onwards, overlying an earlier formal design attributed to Charles Bridgeman. However, in the twentieth century Trentham Gardens was principally known for the surviving formal gardens laid out in the 1840s by Sir Charles Barry, who also created Italianate gardens at Harewood House and Cliveden. Italian GardenThe gardens were the site of the Trentham Ballroom, which opened in 1931 and closed in 2002. A host of dance, rock and pop bands performed at Trentham Ballroom, including The Who and Led Zeppelin. The Ballroom also hosted degree ceremonies for North Staffordshire Polytechnic Barabary Macaque at Trentham Monkey ForestThe Trentham estate is undergoing a major £120-million ($200m) redevelopment by St Modwen Properties plc as a leisure destination called "The Trentham Estate". The project at Trentham includes restoration of the Italian Gardens and woodlands, and creation of a garden centre. The aim is to avoid noisy theme park-like attractions, and instead to offer "authentic experiences" to older people and younger children. Recently a monkey forest, the first of its kind in England, has opened. Visitors can roam through the park where 140 Barbary Macaque monkeys wander free in the woodlands. There are no fences in place to stop the monkeys from interacting with the visitors, although it is against park rules to touch the animals and wardens are on standby to ensure the safety of the visitors. In December 2008 a Giant Observation Wheel was opened on site for tourists to get a view overhead view of the attractions in the complex and around the city
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Location: Trentham Gardens, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, Staffs, England, UK
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