Picturesque village by John Nash with George and John Adey Repton for J.S. Harford of Blaise Castle (qv) as retirement homes for estate workers; nine cottages ornées grouped at random round irregular village green with pump 1826 and sundial; informal terrace walk linking buildings and overlooking green; high boundary wall to south and east; private cottage gardens.

C18 picturesque landscape park by Humphry Repton 1795 for John Harford overlaying sublime garden by Thomas Farr 1762, on medieval site of Henbury Manor, rebuilt 1688 by Sir Samuel Astry with formal gardens as depicted by Kip. Municipal park since 1926. Balustraded terrace with vases; orangery; kitchen garden; stable block; dairy garden; formal garden; many parkland features; field archaeology; hanging woods; plantations; picturesque wooded carriage drives; Hazel Brook and Gorge; rhododendron walk; vista walk and ramparts presumed Iron Age but possibly by Farr 1760s. Lovers’ Leap, a spectacular view-point; Giant’s Soap Dish, a small pool; Goram’s Chair, a limestone outcrop; Goram’s Footprint, a ‘giant footprint’ in stone; bathing pool.

Known as the ‘Hanging Gardens’ of Crew’s Hole. Remnant of ornamental pleasure ground with 18C terraces overlooking River Avon.  

Remains of mid C18 landscape park for William Reeve, mostly built over by housing and industrial estate: part remains as municipal park with some mature trees, boundary walls and remains of possible prospect mound and walks; wide range of early Gothic-revival garden buildings of c1750; colonnade of otherwise lost Batty Langley style bath house re-erected at Portmeirion by Clough Williams-Ellis; ogee-arched tunnel beneath Bath Road linking Court with Stables filled in 1911. Arno’s Court is now a hotel. The Black Castle is now a pub.

Communal garden 1788-1840’s: three rectangular compartments separated by roads and enclosed by cast-iron railings; grass with fine trees and shrubs. Within Clifton Conservation Area.  

STOKE PARK part Bristol, part South Gloucestershire C18 landscape park on C16 park on medieval site, by Thomas Wright for Norborne Berkeley, Lord Botetourt: formal gardens depicted 1712 by Kip altered and extended by Wright 1749-1768; parkland laid out and improved by Berkeley and Wright 1740s-1780s; earlier coppices  redesigned as ornamental woodland gardens with serpentine walks linked by stone tunnels by Wright 1749-1764, now overgrown. Many garden buildings by Wright; Bladud’s Cell, a root-house (1749); Sands Gate Lodge (1762), all gone; Duchess Pond, a 3a. ornamental lake (1768) infilled 1968 for M32 Parkway. Dower House, formerly Stoke Park House, (LB II*) c1563 remodelled by Wright for N. Berkeley 1749-52 and 1760-64; terrace and balustrade (LB II) C16; orangery (LB II) c1720 by Sir James Thornhill for John Symes Berkeley; Memorial to 4th Duke of Beaufort (LB II) c1756, restored 1987; obelisk (LB II) 1762; Duchess Gateway (LB II) 1762, formerly Sands Gate, undergoing restoration 1991; two stone tunnels (LB II); cold bath (LB II); all by Wright for N. Berkeley; anti-aircraft gun and camp site (Ancient Monument) 1939-42. Former Hospital closed 1997. Dower House now in residential use. See Historic England link for boundary of listed site. Public access by network of public footpaths.

ARNO’S VALE CEMETERY, Arno’s Vale Garden cemetery 1837, later extended to c45a; Arcadian layout with serpentine walks on steep site; mature trees. Pair of Neo-Greek Doric lodges (LB II*) 1837-38; entrance gates and screen walls 1837; Church of England Chapel (LB II*) c1840, Dissenters’ Chapel (LB II*) c1840, all Charles Underwood; Indian Romantic style tomb of Rajah Ram Mohun Roy Bahadoor (LB II*) 1843; neo-classical tomb of James Bartlett 1851; Gothic table tomb of Thomas Lucas 1859 by Tyley; obelisk 1866 by Tyley; obelisk to Francis Barber Ogden 1857 by Tyley; Gothic pinnacle to John Tilly mid C19 and adjacent obelisk mid C19; War Memorial c1920, (all LB II).

BRANDON HILL, Bristol Bristol’s earliest public park, granted to the Corporation 1174 by Robert Earl of Gloucester, 4a. at summit acquired by Corporation from Tewkesbury Abbey 1581; remains of Civil War defensive earthworks 1643  (Scheduled Ancient Monument); walks and walls 1845; Cabot Tower 1897-98 on site of Russian guns 1857 on site of medieval St. Brendan’s Chapel; specimen trees and shrubs; water and rock garden 1936-37; heather garden 1949-50; bowling green; play area; nature park c.1980.

Formerly part of Brentry Hospital Landscape park 1802 by Humphry Repton for William Payne, extended c1817-25 for John Cave, part built over: carefully contrived views of Severn Estuary and Wales; sinuous drive, part flanked by remains of haha; grotto, now lost; entrance lodge demolished c1970s; remains of curved orangery mid C19; woodland belts with mature ornamental and native trees; parkland specimens; ornamental shrubberies and modern amenity planting; grassland areas partly damaged by regrading.      

GROVE PARK, Redland – see Redland Court