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Old Posted Aug 31, 2017, 2:00 PM
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Originally Posted by esquire View Post
I wondered about that myself... is it some sort of Britishism?
I never understood "gardens" either, but I liked the sound of it.

Maybe the first arena named "gardens" was built on the site of a garden, and the name just stuck.

Kind of like the stadium "Stamford Bridge" which is near a bridge (or was) but not an actual bridge.
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