Peel Park
Introduction
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Peel Park
Image: © Jim Smillie Taken: 23 Jul 2010
This part of the park represents the gardens of Livigston House. According to the gazetteer for Scotland "The garden of the old mansion-house contained, about the middle of the 17th century, a large typical collection of plants, forming a sort of botanic garden, and amounting to about 1000 species-for those days a very large number. It was formed by Sir Patrick Murray of Livingston, one of the most promising men of science of his time, who died, while quite a young man, during a journey on the Continent, undertaken for the purpose of increasing his botanical knowledge. The plants were then removed to Edinburgh by Sir Andrew Balfour, and formed a large proportion of those with which the first Botanic Garden of that city-the Old Physic Gardens-was stocked in 1670".
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Image Location
Latitude
55.8914
Longitude
-3.535591