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*’kew gardens’ is the world’s largest collection of ‘living plants’*
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*founded in 1840*
*from the ‘exotic garden’ @ ‘kew park’*
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*in the ‘london borough’ of ‘richmond-upon-thames’*
‘UK’
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(its ‘living collections’ include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the ‘herbarium’, which is one of the largest in the world, has over ‘7 million preserved plant specimens’)
(the library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants)
(it is one of london’s top ‘tourist attractions’)
(in 2003, the gardens were put on the ‘UNESCO list’ of ‘world heritage sites’)
(‘kew gardens (together with the botanic gardens at ‘wakehurst place’ in ‘sussex’) are managed by the ‘royal botanic gardens’ (‘kew’) (brand name kew), an internationally important botanical research/education institution that employs 750 staff + is a “non-departmental public body” sponsored by the “department for environment / food / rural affairs”)
(the ‘kew’ site, which has been dated as formally starting in ‘1759’, though can be traced back to the ‘exotic garden’ at ‘kew park’, formed by ‘lord capel john’ of ‘tewkesbury’, consists of ‘121 hectares’ (/ ‘300 acres’) of ‘gardens’ + ‘botanical glasshouses’, 4 ‘grade I listed buildings’ + ’36 grade II listed structures’, all set in an internationally significant landscape)
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(‘kew gardens’ has its own ‘police force’ (‘kew constabulary’) which has been in operation since ‘1847’)
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👈👈👈☜*’RICHMOND’ UPON ‘THAMES’* ☞ 👉👉👉
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