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Parks and Gardens in the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority.
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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.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetC18 garden and woodland, now much altered, above the Limpley Stoke valley: landscaped approach through woods via two archways, one rustic and one classical; C19 balustraded terrace; two fountains; walled kitchen garden. Recent reworking.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetC17 site, with historic orchard, featuring many old apple varieties. Little remains of formal garden except steps; walled kitchen garden; privy on bridge over stream.
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Early C18 garden, overlaid with early and later C20 additions. Pools, stone-built cascade, well-preserved mount and terraces appear to date from building of house, and suggest an original layout of terraces, pleasure grounds, and miniature park or meadow. Early C20 Italianate layout by former owner, Horace Annesley Vachel, attributed to Harold Peto, comprises reworked terraces, formal pool, water-garden, hedges; continuing modifications c1970.
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1930s garden, informally planted and well timbered; extensive kitchen garden; panoramic views.
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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.