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Park · Kew, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens is the botanic garden of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at Kew in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and a World Heritage Site inscribed in 2003.

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Kew Gardens is the botanic garden at Kew, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, run by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, whose Board of Trustees is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, according to GOV.UK. The UK National Commission for UNESCO records it as a World Heritage Site inscribed in 2003 and describes 326 acres of landscapes with temperate and tropical glasshouses, naming the Palm, Waterlily and Temperate Houses, the Treetop Walkway and the Great Pagoda among its highlights. The borough's official tourism site adds the Princess of Wales Conservatory, the Arboretum, the Hive, Kew Palace and two galleries of botanical art, the Shirley Sherwood Gallery and the Marianne North Gallery. This record is the garden, not the research institution of the same name, and its map point is the middle of the garden's outline, not a gate. Entry terms are set by Kew, so check its own site before visiting.

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