Park yourself on a bench in one of Britains top parks.

Top 10 most beautiful parks compiled by Rae Spencer-Jones extracted from 1001 gardens for the Daily Telegraph. If you can cope with 1001 garden visits then good on you…. but read the book first.

1. Royal Botanic Garden Kew has a tropical plant festival in the glasshouse until March 2010
2. Virginia Water – Saville garden and Valley garden have a varied and exotic woodland, landscape and garden to visit.
3. Hylands Park Essex has a wide variety of interesting flora, fauna. There is also a large variety of mature trees including oak, ash, hornbeam, and field maple, plus an additional 25,000 new trees.
4. Clumber Country Park Nottinhamshire is ideal for long walks or cycling so you need to be fit.
5. Talkin Tarn Cumbria nestles in a 165 acre site, containing a glacial tarn surrounded by mature woodland and gentle meadows
6. Coed y Brenin Gwynedd is Forestry commission land with lots of bike tracks.
7. Healey Dell Nature Reserve Lancashire sits in a picturesque part of the Spodden Valley on the outskirts of Rochdale. It is rich in wildlife, with a fascinating archaeological history
8. Stanwick Lakes Northampton is a unique countryside attraction in the heart of the Nene Valley very good for wild life.
9. Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park Lincolnshire with a walled garden, house and farming museum to complement the Park
10. Vogrie Country Park Edinburgh has 250 acres of natural trails, a walled garden and ponds. The 19th-century landscape includes trees brought to Scotland by plant collector George Forrest. Great for walking.

Lister Park Bradford.