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Parks and Gardens in the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority.
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Secluded, informal garden, chiefly C19: features include a summerhouse and a rockery containing a stone table on the spot where Sir William Napierreputedly wrote his History of the Peninsular Wars. Lawn terrace dates from 1956.
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GOURNAY COURT, West Harptree Mock-Jacobean garden, 1930s. Walled garden, knot planted in box, two stone pineapples from Coley Court on gate piers. Lawn with mature mulberry and other specimen trees.
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C18/19 garden with recent alterations. Surviving original features include mature holm oaks and beeches, lawn bounded by ha-ha, remains of box-edged formal garden, stable yard of Victorian model farm.
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C18 woodland garden. Laid out c1775 when house was built as a picturesque and romantic landscape. Strawberry Hill Gothic tea-room (‘The Priory’) and ornamental walks survive from original layout. Early C19 Gothic greenhouse and embattled gateways and lodge. Since 1901 estate has been broken up. Now in use as hotel and wellness centre
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C18 terraced garden. Extensive garden walls, and roofless Gothic orangery survive; a classical summerhouse formerly part of the garden survives in a neighbouring property. House and garden now in divided ownership.
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Former communal garden, created during town expansion c1792-96. Engraving of 1852 shows plain grassland; affected by building of station 1896, and bombing 1942. Level raised by deposited river dredgings. Handsome mature trees along boundaries.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetEnglish Heritage Register Grade II* (revised 2004). C18 park, designed by ‘Capability’ Brown 1761, modified by Humphry Repton, and featuring a dramatic chain of lakes, linked by cascades, set among hanging woods. One of the original three lakes now silted up. Other features include landscaped approach redesigned by Repton; mount; well-preserved icehouse; large walled kitchen garden; remains of orangery; Italian and children’s gardens; many fine specimen trees. Now the main campus for Bath Spa University
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English Heritage Register Grade II (added 2002). Municipal park, laid out 1883-89 on site of Georgian housing destroyed by landslips in the 1860s and 70s. Bandstand (LB II), and wrought iron drinking fountain c1889; massive retaining walls; boundary wall with fine railings particularly on London Street.
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C20 municipal park, laid out post-World War II, and extended after Great Flood of 1968; Memorial Gates opened 1952; features include recreation areas and ornamental lake; ruins of Keynsham Abbey, mill and water-wheel, award-winning Modernist bandstand demolished early 1980s.
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Predominantly C19 garden. Picturesque riverside walk entered via stone gate piers and iron gate, still retaining much ornamental planting; avenue of horse chestnuts to house; many specimen trees on lawns, and C20 ‘Dutch garden’. The site is now redeveloped and restored for residential use