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102: 310: 674: 109: 24: 284:, approached The United Bottling Company, Mr Daryl Mitchell from Rakodzi farm and several others and a fence was erected. The park comprises land from Rakodzi farm and Springvale Estate. Later on in 1984, a pond was built and some game (nine impalas and several sables) was introduced. It was named after Patrick Gosho, a former Estate Manager at Springvale House with a history of running the Springvale Estate and being 259:
woodland with two streams, their associated grasslands and rocky outcrops (some with Bushmen paintings). 237 species of birds have been recorded by the Mashonaland East Birding Group with a variety of Brachystegia species such as the
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During the 1980s builders and groups of schoolboys at Peterhouse worked to create roads, trails, picnic sites, the Bush Camp and other facilities. More game was introduced over the years.
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It was rumoured among the indigenous African Peterhouse Cohort of the late 1980s that Mr Gosho was in fact the rightful owner of the land that now constitutes Gosho Park.
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is a conservation area of approximately 340 hectares (840 acres; 3.4 km) of land on the Springvale Estate (it is adjacent to
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tits. There are 72 species of trees in the area as recorded by the Tree Society.
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In 1984 Peter Ginn, the well known bird photographer and Geography teacher at
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