1. Originally, in the 13th century, a park meant an enclosed tract of land held by royal grant and reserved for hunting deer and other game.
2. There are 113,000 National Parks and similarly protected areas on Earth, covering six per cent of the land surface.
3. England’s 10 National Parks cover more than nine per cent of the country.
4. In Wales, the three National Parks cover 19.9 per cent of the area and in Scotland it is 7.2 per cent.
5. Britain’s first National Park was the Lake District, officially designated as such in 1951.
6. The first reference to a car park was in England in 1926, though car-parking had been mentioned in the US in 1915.
7. Richmond Park is the largest of London’s Royal Parks. It was created by Charles I as a deer park.
8. Gosford Park (Best Original Screenplay 2002) and Jurassic Park (three awards in 1994) are the only films with Park in the title to win Oscars…
9. …but Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park has won four Oscars on his own.
10. It is forbidden to erect a tent in a Royal Park or use a tent or any other structure for sleeping there.