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Hampden Park itself is a large pleasant space with a fair sized lake. There is a park cafe called
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survey of 1087 and for a long time the woodland and lake had been a decoy attracting wildfowl for the estate kitchens. By the end of the 19th century the lake had probably fallen into disuse. Lord
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