The history of the park can be traced back to the (1)
century. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries people wouldn’t
really have understood what a park was. The idea of a park simply didn’t exist.
People at that time knew about (2) because most of the
population was involved in it. But (3) was seen as something
dangerous. People wanted (4) and (5)
landscapes that showed how the wilderness of nature could be made safe and
beautiful. This was how parks began. Only rich people had parks,
and socially, parkland quickly became significant as a status symbol, first
appearing near large country houses like because it was where the big
(6) lived. Also very (7) socially was
tree-planting because trees involve long-term (8) . They
express a (9) in the future, and so they were carefully
planted in (10) positions. In the eighteenth
century, the park became even more important as a (11) for a
large house. The immediate (12) of the house were grassland,
not fields of (13) . This was because if the park was to
clearly distinguish its owner as a wealthy person, it needed to be beautiful but
not very (14) . Rich people often involved themselves in
something more like a (15) , for example, breeding
animals. In the nineteenth century, (16)
parks appeared, taking up some of the ideas of rural park design, and those
coming from (17) traditions. Parks gradually came to be used
for the (18) of growing urban populations. This was quite a
different purpose from that of the (19) park, which could be
seen as representing a kind of (20) around the rich who were
increasingly wanting to distance themselves from local farming communities, as
well as from the growing urban areas.