As a public park, Glebe Park is located on the eastern side of Civic, Canberra. Glebe Park is an critical green heaven in the city. For many office workers, shoppers, tourists, and residents of nearby Reid, it is the City’s most accessible park. The park is a small part of a 40 hectare grant, which was transferred by merchant and pastoralist Robert Campbell to the Church of England in the early 1840s when the area was known as “Canberry”.
100 years after trees were planted on the land here, a community campaign to save the trees led to those trees and their descendants being kept safe by creating a public park there. The park was officially defined and named on 14 December 1983. After construction by the National Capital Development Commission between 1983 and 1988 it was officially opened on Canberra Day March 12 1989.
The reason why this park has been designed in traditional English style is in order to keep with the historic background of the existing trees and their informal character.
by Qing Li
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