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Parks and Gardens in the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority.
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Tags: Walled GardenC18 park, attributed to Wood the Elder for William Wiltshire. Terrace by house, leading to orangery, in which Gainsborough is said to have worked; gardens bounded by ha-ha; fountain north-east of house; walled kitchen garden.
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Tags: terracesEarly C17 terraced garden with C19 planting. Fine Jacobean balustrades, steps, vases and balls; terrace garden with formal beds by house; C17 sheltered seat (the loggia); bathing pool; bowling green; mature clipped Irish yews; grass stair; much recent renovation work to both buildings and planting.
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Tags: terracesEarly C19 terraced garden, park and ornamental woods. Series of formal terraces descending towards River Avon contrast with surrounding informal parkland and woods, all c1815. A grotto is rumoured to exist in woods east of house; a very beautiful crenellated orangery has been recently converted to residential use (glass roof moved to adjacent field); fine specimen trees.
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C18 parkland, featuring extensive avenues and treeplanting. Site now broken up, and house (late C17/early C18) demolished; lodge survives.
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Tags: terracesEarly C20 Italianate garden on terraces, latter presumed to originate from C18. Laid out by Harold Peto for himself; featuring elaborate stonework, statuary and architectural fragments from Italy, colonnade, cloisters, steps up to column in wood, Japanese garden.
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Landscape park and pleasure grounds with famous view over Palladian bridge, fish ponds, and city of Bath, flanked by mature woodlands. Originally laid out 1734-43, attributed to Ralph Allen with help from Richard Jones and Alexander Pope; ‘Capability’ Brown was paid £60 for survey c1764. Several garden features demolished or removed, including central cascade, statue of Moses, cold bath and Gothic temple in the woods.
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Communal garden for terrace built c1825, to designs by John Pinch. Mill Stream widened as it runs through garden to create ornamental feature; bordered by grassed area and mature trees; enclosed with wrought iron railings. Viewed from adjoining footpaths.
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Early C19 picturesque garden on hanging site overlooking valley and Smallcombe Wood. Laid out by the painter Benjamin Barker, ‘the English Poussin’: terrace near house, fountain and pool, raised stone flowerbed; below terrace an elaborate chain of pools and cascades crossed by single-arched bridge, spectacular cedars. Fine specimen trees and shrubs; large kitchen garden.
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Communal garden for crescent built c1790-early C19. Area in front of crescent originally formal garden; by 1848 informal layout in place.
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Town garden, containing newly recreated herb garden. House rented 1766-82 by the scientist and astronomer William Herschel, thought to have had considerable interest in botany.