Manor Park, Aldershot

[1] Facilities include a play area, tennis and basketball courts and an all-concrete skate park designed and built by Fearless Ramps and which opened in 2013.

[6] It was his descendant, Captain Newcome RN, who sold the park and manor house to Aldershot Urban District Council in 1919.

A DNA profile taken from the baby showed that both she and her mother and possibly also the child’s father, were of East Asian origin.

[15] In January 2018 police released CCTV footage of two people they wished to speak to in relation to the birth and murder of the child.

In July 2020 23-year old care home worker Babita Rai was charged with the murder of her baby following which she appeared at Winchester Crown Court.

The Infanticide Act 1938 defines the offence as an alternative to murder, when a mother kills her baby while the balance of her mind is disturbed as a result of the birth.

[19] Located in the park is a sunken walled-garden known as the Heroes' Shrine with a large modern statue in Portland stone of Christ calming the storm.

The statue is carved from a block rejected by Sir Christopher Wren in the building of St Paul's Cathedral.

The memorial was constructed by Messrs. Perryman & Co of Woking at a cost of £3,200, while the inscriptions on the statue and stones were done by Messrs. E. Finch and Sons of High Street, Aldershot.

On 8 November 2018 a Peace Garden was opened nearby in the park by Rushmoor Borough Council to commemorate the Armistice of 1918 which ended World War I.