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Parks and Gardens in the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority.
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Small estate originally laid out mid C18, extended c1808, and again c1868. Now open grassland dotted with mature specimen trees; entrances flanked by mature avenues; large kitchen garden, with elaborate walls and gateways, still cultivated. Fine views. Remains of park now maintained by Kingswood School.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetEccentric grass-terraced garden originally created c1870-1910. by William Sweetland, behind his organ factory and running down to the River Avon. The garden featured several stone ornaments: stone coffin; Ionic column from demolished St. Mary’s Chapel, Queen Square; urn scratch-carved with organ motifs. Mature cedar and Wellingtonia by north wall.
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C18 town garden site, restored after extensive archaeological investigations in the 1980’s.
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Small town garden, thought to be unaltered since C18 creation; certainly little changed since OS 1st edition; mixture of decorative and kitchen planting.
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Tags: icehouseSmall and elaborate C18 garden on a sloping site described by Horace Walpole as “little, but pretty … a very diminutive principality with large pretentions”. Surviving C18 features include a round temple, terracing, yew avenue, and kitchen garden. Periphery of landscape now encroached upon by modern built development.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetC19 garden and small park. Avenue of limes, terraced lawn and balustrade, shrubbery walk, beds, and specimen trees survive from C19 layout created for Charles Adam Kemble, maintained at reduced level.
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A grassed oval with a large plane tree in the centre. Enclosed by listed buildings on three sides.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetC18 Park designed by ‘Capability’ Brown 1761, modified by Humphry Repton. Features a chain of lakes, linked by cascades, amongst hanging woods. Approach re-designed by Repton. Other features – Mount, Icehouse, large walled kitchen garden, remains of Orangery, and fine specimen trees in the parkland. The Site and buildings are the main campus of Bath Spa University.
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Parish Cemetery Land donated by Beckford’s daughter in 1847 to the rector of Walcot. Adjoins Beckford’s tower. Beckford’s tomb relocated here from abbey Cemetery 1848. 2019 – Beckford’s Tower placed on the Heritage at Risk Register
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Municipal park, laid out 1883-89 0n site of Georgian housing destroyed by landslip in the 1860’s and 70’s. Bandstand (LBII) and wrought iron drinking fountain c.1889 massive retaining walls boundary with fine railings on London Street.