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Hagley Park is the largest urban open space ( 164. 637 hectares )< ref name =" m-plan "> Hagley Park Management Plan, Christchurch City Council < New Zealand .</ ref > in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was created in 1855 by the Provincial Government.

According to the government's decree at that time, Hagley Park is " reserved forever as a public park, and shall be open for the recreation and enjoyment of the public.

" Hagley Park is characterised by its trees and broad open spaces.

Hagley Park was named after the country estate of Lord Lyttelton, who became chairman of the Canterbury Association in March 1850.

Along the eastern boundary, the Park is defined by the two kilometre loop of the Avon River, which extends into the side of Hagley Park.

The northern unit is Little Hagley Park ( 6. 96 hectares ), with North Hagley Park ( 87. 17 hectares ) lying to the south of Harper Avenue.

South Hagley Park ( 70. 507 hectares ) lies to the south of North Hagley Park, separated by Riccarton Avenue.

The Ellerslie Flower Show has been held in North Hagley Park since 2008.

A golf course ( Hagley Golf Club ) is located in North Hagley Park.

South Hagley Park contains several netball courts, the Hagley Oval cricket ground and a heliport for Christchurch Hospital.

Route 34 was the first route to go in Smethwick in 1930, although there has been talk of the Midland Metro following a new route down Hagley Road to Quinton.

Rugeley has also benefitted from a skate park being built in Hagley Park.

Offsite facilities include the nearby Christ's College cricket ground ( which also has football and rugby fields ) which consists of four hectares of South Hagley Park, and Kerr's Reach on the Avon River which is home to the Christ's College rowing club, consisting of a boat house which houses top quality rowing equipment.

Hagley Hall has been the home of successive Viscounts Cobham and Wychbury Hill is part of the property, but is accessible from public footpaths.

He is especially known for the evocative mock " ruined " castles he created at Hagley, Wimpole Hall and Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire though this last has since been demolished.

An 1813 document refers to the land as Hagley and it had been called Hagley as early as 1797, when its owner, Philadelphia Quaker merchant Rumford Dawes, applied for insurance on buildings that were said to be located in a place called Hagley on the Brandywine.

It is often found underneath oak and silver birch in Hagley Park in central Christchurch, New Zealand, where it is likely to have been introduced, probably on the roots of container-grown beech, birch, and oak in the mid-19th century — around the time exotic trees began to be planted in the Christchurch area.

Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet ( 1593 – February 22, 1650 ) was the eldest son of John Lyttelton and inherited the family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, Hagley, and Upper Arley from his mother, Meriel daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, to whom the estates had been restored by James I, after their forfeiture due to his father's conviction of high treason.

They were captured at Hagley Park on the 9 January 1606 because the authorities had been informed of their presence by Littleton's cook-John Fynwood.

The track was threatened with closure in 1969 and since then events have been organised by the Hagley & District Light Car Club, who obtained the lease on the land from owner Sir Michael Leighton in 1970, in which year the first National A hillclimb was staged.

1961 – The Longwood Library, founded in 1953 by Pierre S. duPont, merged with Hagley Museum and opened at the site of the original DuPont Company's powder works at Hagley.

The " Danilo " at the end of the Hagley Road is now the site of the Picture House nightclub.

Their hiding place at Hagley, the home of Humphrey Littleton ( brother of MP John Littleton, imprisoned for treason in 1601 for his part in the Essex revolt ) was betrayed by a cook, who grew suspicious of the amount of food sent up for his master's consumption.

The library and archival collections owned by Hagley are open to the public for research, with a catalog available online.

The Hagley Museum also exhibits personal stories of the people who worked for the DuPont Company in the nineteenth century, how they lived, and how their lifestyles changed during a century in tune with new machinery and new production methods in their workplace.

It seems likely that Delaware's Hagley was named for an English estate that was well known in the second half of the eighteenth century.

First fireworks show produced for Hagley members in honor of the museum's 25th anniversary.

* Background notes for the papers of Samuel Francis du Pont 1806-1865, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

Popular landmarks in Clintonville include the " Welcome to Clintonville " signs at the main entryways of the community, Immaculate Conception Church and Hagley Field, on lease from the Columbus City Schools for Bishop Watterson High School to use as its home field, previously utilized as such by Columbus North High School that closed as a normal high school and re-opened as a vocational school before becoming the temporary home of Columbus East High School students as their school is remodeled.

Lord Lyttelton of Hagley Hall constructed the Wychbury Obelisk on Wychbury Hill in 1758, which is visible for many miles, even from the Clee Hills.

The follies at Hagley include Wychbury Obelisk on Wychbury Hill built in 1764 for Sir Richard Lyttelton.

Hagley Hall, where George Lyttelton insisted on a classical style for the main house.

Blakedown was then part of Hagley, giving rise to the name for it of ' Hagley Road '.

It is served by the famous number 11 Birmingham Outer Circle as well as the Hagley Road Corridor buses and of course a regular National Express Coach Service.

It is however served by a fairly comprehensive bus network, and is on the Hagley Road Bus Corridor from Birmingham to Stourbridge ( route 9 ) and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre ( route 222 ).

Since the name Hagley did not appear on the documents transferring ownership at that time, it seems likely that Dawes gave this name to the Brandywine location.

This location, adjacent to the Government Domain ( now Hagley Park ), provided the college with room to expand, and the school gradually began to acquire additional buildings.

He produced some classical buildings like the Shire Hall in Warwick and Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, but is more often associated with Gothic revival work, as at Albury Hall, Oxfordshire and the Great Hall at Lacock Abbey.

* New Talbot, The ( 457 Hagley Road, Bearwood )

* 1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – 4 – 0 at Hagley Park ( grass ) Christchurch, New Zealand

The New Zealand International Exhibition ( the biggest in the country to that time ) opened 1 November 1906 in Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand.