Dear Brenda, actually Queen Victoria made every city have its own parks! The bigger or more industrialized they were the more parks they had to have. Now with all the industry gone you are left with parks everywhere in the UK. Also every major city had to have a Botanic Garden as well. We have Kew in London, but there is, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge etc., to name but a few! Unfortunately the railways also spread what we now call weed seeds all over the country from these Botanic Gardens. The weeds became established and are not Native to the UK!
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Neil.