Parks & Gardens Directory

C19 landscape garden to former private asylum in the style of classical mansion, now subdivided and partly built over: wooded drive with mature oak and yew; undulating lawn with mature copper beech, cedar and yew; shrubbery walk; derelict belvedere 1930s; stone alcove; remains of fruit and vegetable gardens; five separate estate houses for wealthy inmates. The layout of principal building copied at Northwoods. South Gloucestershire (qv). Also known as Long Fox Manor. Now private apartments.

C19 school grounds on site of late C18 Tyndall’s Park to Royal Fort House (qv), now much built over: terrace; mature trees; rockery; shrubs. Tyndall’s Park Conservation Area.

Hospital garden 1926-27 in memory of Harold Edgar Melville Wills (d.1925) in style of garden at Bracken Hill House, North Somerset (qv), on early C19 garden of Cotham House: lodge and drive early C19; formal rose garden with pond, fountain, paved areas, terraces and stone walls; winding gravel walks through extensive Pulhamite rockeries; water gardens, now disused; mature specimen trees; sunken kitchen garden now with temporary buildings; tennis court on part of former rockery. Whiteladies Road Conservation Area.

Zoological garden 1835 by Richard Forrest of Millers Nursery: perimeter and winding walks; lake and island; terrace with specimen trees and shrubs, display beds; herbaceous border 1936; rock garden 1896, altered 1926 by Gavin Jones of Letchworth, extended post 1966 with rocks from Hollywood Tower, South Gloucestershire (qv) in semi-Oriental style with pools and statue; varied temperate and tropical planting, all plants labelled. Clifton Conservation Area.

Communal garden 1788, altered 1953-54: unenclosed grass square with diagonal paths; trees; rose beds. Brunswick Chapel 1834, recent restoration of surrounding Georgian architecture. Portland Square Conservation Area.