5 things you didn’t know about Cambridge’s open spaces

• The avenues of London Plane and Horse Chestnut trees on Jesus Green were planted over 100 years ago.
• Paradise Local Nature Reserve is home to Butterbur, a plant species first recorded 400 years ago, and which has been used by Native Americans to treat headaches for centuries.
• There are over 10,000 daffodil bulbs planted in the grass on Christ’s Pieces
• During the First World War Lammas Land was used as allotments. In the 1920’s the rights of common land were extinguished and the land was laid out for passive recreation.
• Barnwell East was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 1992, following demands for the site to be developed for housing and football pitches.