Description: The Arboretum was opened to the public May 11, 1852. It comprised seventeen acres, and presented within itself a landscape, Aviary, a People's Park, and an ornamental Garden. The Nottingham Enclosure Act 1845 enclosed fields and meadows, used by the burgesses of freeholders of the City to graze their animals, and to compensate for the loss of open space used for recreation, allotted space for a series of places of public recreation and public walks. One hundred and thirty acres made up of Queen's Walk and Queen's Walk Park, Victoria Park, Robin Hood Chase, Corporation Oaks, St Ann's Hill Avenue, Nottingham Arboretum (seen here), the General Cemetery, Waterloo Promenade, the Church Cemetery and the Forest were created as public open spaces from the enclosures. Nottingham's Arboretum had four Crimean Cannons, captured at Sebastopol, placed around the Chinese Bell Tower seen here, two were lost some time ago, possibly as part of the war effort to reclaim metal, but have since been replaced by replicas. The cannons were erected in 1861 and may have been donated by Lord Palmerston (at the same time that he presented Derby Arboretum with similar cannons). The Bell in the chinese pagoda was removed in 1955. The bell was taken from a temple in the Canton region of China by the 59th or 2nd Nottingham Regiment of foot when that city was captured in 1857 as part of the 2nd Opium War (2nd Anglo-Chinese War) 1857-1860.