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Encyclopedia > Union Terrace Gardens

Union Terrace Gardens is a park in the city centre of Aberdeen, Scotland.


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Union Terrace Gardens (183 words)
This is a one-hectare park and is located right in the heart of the city, to one side of Union Terrace, off the city’s main thoroughfare of Union Street.
At the Union Street end of the gardens a group of mature elms, approximately 200 years old, are a remnant of a site known as Corbie Woods.
This is a city centre park with a large grass area, banking, floral crests and a formal garden area.
Aberdeen (3118 words)
Union Terrace Gardens are a popular rendezvous in the heart of the city.
In Union Terrace Gardens stands a colossal statue in bronze of Sir William Wallace, by W. Stevenson, R.S.A. In the same gardens are a bronze statue of Robert Burns and Baron Charles Marochetti's seated figure of Prince Albert.
At the east end of Union Street is the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1893 by the royal tradesmen of the city.
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