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Liverpool, England, UK has a significant area of public parks and gardens. The English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks describes Merseyside’s as collectively the "most important in the country" 〔(Dr. Peter Brown, chair, Merseyside Civic Society )〕 The city of Liverpool has ten listed parks and cemeteries, including two Grade I and five Grade II *, more than any other English city apart from London.〔(Liverpool City Council ) ''News'', 23/2/2009〕 There are over of parks and open spaces in the city.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Liverpool City Council website )〕 Much of the open space was for centuries private estate land. In particular several of the city's grand houses of the Georgian and Victorian eras are now either demolished or in public ownership, with their grounds and gardens given over to the city. Notable, however, are several parks which were conceived from the outset as public parks, modelled in part on the nearby Birkenhead Park, outwith Liverpool across the River Mersey, which was amongst the first of its type in the world. ==Historical background== In 1833, the government's Select Committee on Public Walks emphasised the need to provide accessible space for recreation to improve the health of the urban population, to defuse social tensions and to allow social classes to mix. From the early 1850s onwards, Liverpool endorsed this policy with the introduction of a ring of major municipal parks through a significant level of investment in public parks. These included Princes, Sefton, Wavertree, Shiel, Newsham and Stanley Parks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parks and open spaces in Liverpool」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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