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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 20/06/2026 18:27:00

Bisected by the River Soar just north of Leicester city centre, Abbey Park is the city's premier public park, a Grade II*-registered landscape laid out on former floodplain marshland. It was opened on 29 May 1882 by the Prince and Princess of Wales, after the corporation bought the meadows from the Earl of Dysart and tackled the site's chronic flooding by widening the river and lowering its bed; the layout was designed by the Derby firm of William Barron and Son. The park divides into two parts...