Parks & Gardens Directory

Small Victorian villa garden: lawns, shrubberies, mature specimen trees, driveways and paths. Kitchen garden and flowerbeds no longer cultivated; stone fountain in pool now used as flowerbed.

Communal garden, grassed central area with group of mature trees. The Circus was built to designs by Wood the Elder, 1754-69. In the C18 it was cobbled, with a pump in the centre; documentary evidence points to a garden being laid out and trees planted between 1800 and 1808; railings surrounding central area removed 1939-45.

C17 site with fish ponds. Former manor house built by Sir John Newton C17. Site contains a succession of nine fish ponds, the last one clearly ornamental with island; also remains of old driveway. Grand C19 model farm steading now dominates site.

Early C19 house and garden, sited within deer park of Chandos House, demolished C18. Original hunting lodge remains (now Lodge Farm). Garden includes rockeries, and two Gothic windows set in garden wall. Gothic windows (LB II*) probably from Keynsham Abbey.

Mid C18 landscape park. Serpentine river and lake, with two islands, on one of which stands a temple 1950; iron bridge to island 1950s; icehouse; walled kitchen garden; remains of Victorian gasometer. Admired by Richard Warner in 1801. Site now reduced in size; grotto and orangery demolished C20.