Preston Park Schedule

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It was bought in 1883 by Brighton Corporation (then Brighton's local authority) from Mr William Bennett-Stanford who owned the Preston Manor estate and had begun to develop the park as enclosed pleasure grounds.

The park was formally declared open on 8 November 1884.The park remains green throughout the summer because of a non-drinkable underground water source, known as the Wellesbourne, which runs below Preston Park, London Road and The Level.

Various pathways and streams wind through its grounds.

In 2000, after torrential rain, it rose and caused considerable damage.Opposite the park, across the main London Road, is The Rockery—the largest municipal rock garden in Britain built up the side of a steep railway embankment.

Preston Park is a park near Preston Village in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England.

The costs of the purchase (£50,000) and initial layout (£22,868) were funded with a bequest of £70,000 from a local bookmaker, William Edmund Davies in 1879.