King Lucas Park

The King Lucas Park - sometimes called Pines Park - is actually a series of gardens laid out as part of the remodeling of Pines, Newhaven. The park also functions as an institute for botanical research, having several botanical gardens and lying close to farming enterprises. The dominant natural feature of the park is the sixteen-metre-high hill on which it lies. The park can thus be divided in the so-called lower gardens and the higher ones. The lower gardens consist out of botanical complexes and the arrangement of fountains for which the park is best known. East of the lower gardens lies the King Lucas Botanical Institute and a small living quarter. On the western end of the park, there is a piece of Pines natural forest which had been preserved for ecological reasons.