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Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Sutton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ7650355 ↗
Source-derived summary

The London Borough of Sutton, one of the peripheral London boroughs, has 89 parks and open spaces within its boundaries, a total area of 1500 acres (6 km2). Varied in size and layout, green spaces range from the compact Manor Park in Sutton town centre, through the medium-sized Grove Park, which forms part of the Carshalton Village conservation area, to the large and historic Oaks Park in the south of the borough. In the west of the borough is the large Nonsuch Park.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Sutton” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Parks, spaces and London, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1500—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Parks, spaces and London is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Sutton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.