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Wild Park

Wild Park

Park in Brighton, England

For other uses, see Wildpark (disambiguation).

Wild Park is a 239.8-hectare (593-acre) Local Nature Reserve adjacent to Lewes Road in Brighton, East Sussex. It is owned and managed by Brighton and Hove City Council.[1][2] It includes Hollingbury Castle, an Iron Age hillfort which is a Scheduled Monument,[3] and Hollingbury Park golf course.

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The park has views over Brighton. Species-rich chalk grassland is managed by sheep grazing. There is extensive woodland with a network of footpaths, large areas of scrub and a dew pond.[4]

On 9 October 1986, two nine-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, were murdered by 20-year-old local roofer Russell Bishop in the Babes in the Wood murders.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Wild Park/Hollingbury". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Map of Wild Park". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  3. [3]
    Historic England. "Hillfort, the possible remains of a Romano-Celtic temple and a group of three bowl barrows at Hollingbury (1014526)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Wild Park". Brighton and Hove City Council. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Russell Bishop: Paedophile guilty of 1986 Babes in the Wood murders". BBC News. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
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