It was bought and gifted to the town of Wick by a businessman, Leicester Harmsworth, as a recreation park.
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Devon's premier publishing centres had always been at Plymouth - where Sir Leicester Harmsworth, brother of newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe, controlled the city's Evening Herald - and at Exeter - where Sir James Owen had the county's other evening title, the Express and Echo.