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Queens Park, Crewe

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The Friends of Queens Park help to raise money for events held in the park. The Friends are a community group who represent the park, they also raise money to put on events in the Park and to implement new ideas.
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From 2014 the park underwent a major £6.5 million restoration that included a new children's playground, a new café and bowls pavilion, and significant reconstruction work to bridges and footpaths.
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The park is popular with Crewe residents and features the largest lake in the area, which also has boats for hire. Other prominent features of the park include a Grade II listed
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Blurton, Paul (2018). "Queens Park Crewe and the Verdun oaks (and chestnut trees)".
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takes place at the park each Saturday morning at 9am. It began on 17 February 2018.
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A story that the park is a product of 1880s railway politics when the
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from building a railway line through it is almost certainly untrue.
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public park opened in 1887, little changed from its original plan.
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bought the land and donated it to the town to prevent the
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Crewe – Railway Town, Company & People, 1840–1914
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53°05′49″N 2°28′12″W / 53.097°N 2.470°W / 53.097; -2.470

Crewe
Cheshire
Grade II* listed
Francis Webb
Edward Kemp
London & North Western Railway
Great Western Railway
Victorian clock tower
Boer War Memorial
Gulf War
Verdun trees
parkrun
Boer War Memorial
Boer War Memorial
Clock Tower
Clock Tower
East Lodge
West Lodge
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Cheshire portal
Listed buildings in Crewe
List of parks and open spaces in Cheshire
Historic England
"Queen's Park, Crewe (1001412)"
National Heritage List for England
"Queens Park Crewe"
Cheshire East Council
"Queens Park Renovation Project"

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