Communal garden for Somerset Place, laid out 1791- 1820. Irregular oval garden, now informally planted with trees and shrubs.
Access restricted to residents.
Garden of grandiose mansion, laid out 1836-58. Fine mixed specimen trees and shrubs survive together with temple and pool, grotto, second pool and walled kitchen garden, recently made into car park.
Balustrade and steps; ashlar Doric temple with tiled floor (LB II); tufa-built grotto (LB II).
Commercial pleasure gardens designed by Charles Harcourt Masters, opened 1795, and featuring many attractions now lost (painted tableaux, sham castle, grotto etc). Bisected by canal 1810, and railway 1840-41. Large number of mature trees and shrubs remain.
A 3 year NHLF backed Restoration Project to restore and conserve the historic buildings including the Loggia and gardens, improve the landscape and provide new visitor facilities at the former Regency pleasure gardens took place 2019-2022
Municipal park on top of Beechen Cliff, acquired by the city 1896 and opened 1902; panoramic views over the
city to the north; circuit path planted on either side with row of mature beech and lime.
Small town garden sloping down to the River Avon, and featuring an orangery, terraces, and a large walled
garden with decorative stonework, including shell arched niche. 1712, for Henry Walters.
Part of site used as a community garden.
Ornamental and picturesque walk 1822-44. Developed by William Beckford from his two houses in Lansdown Crescent to his tower on Lansdown. Now fragmented. Surviving features include Turkish tea-house in garden of No. 20, fruit and vegetable garden, terraces, ‘embattled gateway’, Lansdown Wood now in Kingswood School, arch to grotto tunnel, panoramic views.
