Victoria Park, Leicester

Victoria Park in Leicester, England is a public park of 69 acres (279,000 square meters). It has facilities for various sports, including tennis, basketball, bowls, croquet, football and cricket. A skate park has been recently added. The park is sometimes used as a venue for outdoor events - in recent years these have included BBC Radio 1's One Big Sunday, the Leicester Caribbean Carnival, and Leicester Pride. A pavilion provides changing facilities, and is also the site of a cafe. The park is home to two memorials. The War Memorial, a quadrifrons arch, built in 1923, to commemorate the dead of the First World War. The memorial, a Grade I listed building, stands at the top of an ornamental walkway ("Peace Walk") with gates opening on to University Road. A smaller memorial near the cafe commemorates the American 82nd Airborne Division, stationed in Leicester prior to D-Day.