At the centre of the Nouveau Jardin is Europe's highest garden fountain.

In the centre is a wide garden surrounded by a ditch, which is lined by 78 statues portraying famous citizens.

Under Von Hertzen's leadership, the Housing Foundation bought 660 acres of forest land, six miles from the centre of Helsinki, and set out to create an ideal garden city.

The old kitchen garden at Barbrook on the edge of the park is let to the Caravan Club, and a paddock at the southern end of the park where bucks used to be fattened for Chatsworth's table is a tenanted garden centre.

The floor over the hypocaust has been worn away by people standing in the centre, mainly to photograph the entrance and the garden beyond it.

Their most important church was built here in the beginning of the 20th century-it is called Temple of Mercy and Charity and is situated in a pleasant garden on the hill on which the historical centre of Płock is built, near the Vistula river.

Between The Ridgeway and Folly Brook are the National Institute for Medical Research, Burtonhole Farm, a garden centre called Finchley Nurseries, and several sports grounds.

This completed the northern half of the site, creating a quadrangle with the garden at its centre, but left the museum without a proper façade.

Roy's includes a department store, a supermarket, a boutique, a garden centre, a toy shop, a garden centre, a DIY store, a discount shop and associated elements.

Blenheim sits in the centre of a large undulating park, a classic example of the English landscape garden movement and style.

The city also has several gymnasiums, the oldest of which dates to 1729, a drawing school from the 19th century, a zoological garden, a centre for the promotion of livestock breeding, and an institute for sugar beet farming.

They are both located at Paradise Park which is a garden centre owned by the Tate family.

Nearer to the town centre are the Valley Gardens, with a love garden, an aviary, and an avenue of cherry trees, which bloom in the spring.

Limited excavation work carried out in 1989 – 90 discovered, inter alia, a filled-in canal running in a north-south axis down the centre of the garden.

There was a rose garden and a sunken Italian garden with an ornamental pool at its centre.

A nursery and garden centre is also here, in whose greenhouses some of the islands ' vegetables are grown.

Evesham Country Park, located out of town, has a garden centre, shops, a miniature railway and a wildlife centre.

In addition to its church, Coton has a primary school, a restaurant-pub ( The Plough ), a garden centre containing a Post Office, farm shop and cafe, football, cricket and bowls clubs, and a British Women's Institute group as well as other local clubs.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

Aside from the services he provided guiding the only centre of literacy in the region, his reputation as a holy man led to his role as a diplomat among the tribes ; there are also many stories of miracles which he performed during his work to convert the Picts.

Dublin is the centre of both media and communications in Ireland, with many newspapers, radio stations, television stations and telephone companies based there.

By the 18th century there was a square at the centre of the town, flanked by the town hall, a public gaol housing prisoners from all over the Lordship of Biscay, a hospital and a poor-house for local people.

To address this, there have been proposals to revitalise the city centre by more adequately connecting it to the waterfront, and provide more employment and entertainment areas.

Tripolitania was a major exporter of olive oil ( produced there with the Centenaria farm system, protected by the Limes Tripolitanus ), as well as a centre for the gold and slaves conveyed to the coast by the Garamentes, while Cyrenaica remained an important source of wines, drugs, and horses.

Godofredus ) destroyed a competing Slav trade centre named Reric, and it is recorded in the Frankish chronicles that he moved the merchants from there to Hedeby.

While there are a number of political parties in the state, the political landscape has been dominated for decades by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, historically opposed and competing entities, which both occupy the traditional centre ground.

Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

To facilitate interdisciplinary learning and research in diverse fields, there are a number of schools and centre for studies.

The centre of kingfisher diversity is the Australasian region, but the family is not thought to have originated there.

The head of the saint now lies there and has been the centre of many pilgrimages.

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

Decorated human skulls uncovered there have led archaeologists to believe that Kfar HaHoresh was a major cult centre in that remote era.

The North Pole faces away from the galactic centre of the Milky Way ; this results in there being far fewer and less bright visible stars in the northern hemisphere compared to the Southern Hemisphere, making the Northern Hemisphere more suitable for deep-space observation, as it is not " blinded " by the Milky Way.

The main railway station is Poznań Central Station to the south-west of the city centre ; there is also the smaller Poznań Wschód and Poznań Garbary station north-east of the centre, and a number of other stations on the outskirts of the city.

Attempts to create a market there to draw off some of the frenetic commercial activity in the centre of the city had not been successful.

Whilst on the surface the new Potsdamer Platz appears so far to have lived up to its expectations as a futuristic centre of commerce at the heart of Europe's youngest capital city, there has been much debate as to just how successful it really is.

East-west trade route went from Truso and Wiskiauten ( a rival centre in Prussia which sprang up at the south-western corner of the Courish Lagoon ), along the Baltic Sea to Jutland, and from there up the Slien inlet to Haithabu / Hedeby, a large trading center in Jutland.

York was the centre of the kingdom of Jórvík from 866, and discoveries there ( e. g. a silk cap, a counterfeit of a coin from Samarkand and a cowry shell from the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf ) suggest that Scandinavian trade connections in the 10th century reached beyond Byzantium.

In addition, in the centre of the capital there is a small artificial lakeLake Cișmigiusurrounded by the Cișmigiu Gardens.