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Parks and Gardens in the Bristol Unitary Authority.
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Municipal park 1888-91: tennis court; play area; crenellated gate piers in Bath stone 1890 from Highgrove, Totterdown.
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Semi-formal town garden 1732-1768 by Thomas Goldney, partly built over 1969 for Bristol University residential blocks: axial yew avenue to grotto with parallel canal; grotto with Gothic tower above on terrace which runs at right angle to main axis, leads to bastion and rotunda; wide views; box parterre with herbs, formerly rose garden; West Walk with stone wall and balustrade, herbaceous border; Olde Worlde Garden 1980s with C18 style planting on former vegetable garden; sunken walk and rock garden. Statue of Hercules (LB II) 1758; pair of Corinthian Columns (LIB II) probably from original doorway c1720, erected as garden feature c1865 by Waterhouse; grotto (LB I) 1737-64 by Goldney, restored 1987 by Simon Verity and Diana Reynell; Gothic tower (LB II*) 1764 to house ‘Fire Engine’ which pumped water for grotto cascade and canal fountains; rotunda (LB II) 1757;
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C19 garden cemetery: Arcadian landscape with mature trees and winding walks.
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Municipal park 1883 on land donated by Greville and Lady Smyth: prospect mound; mature trees, specimens and clumps; shrubberies; rose beds; bowling green; tennis courts; play area.
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C18 walled garden within larger walled enclosure on C15 site; prominent ridge-top site contiguous with Stoke Park, South Gloucestershire (qv); scenic drive with views over Bristol; mature specimen trees and woodland; lodge; barn; cottages. Heath House closed as a ward of Purdown Hospital c1988. It is now owned by Priory Hospitals Group as a private psychiatric centre (1991).
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The Holes has been the site of the University of Bristol,Botanic Garden since 2005. The new garden was designed by Land Use Consultants advised by Peter Crane The Downs Conservation Area. House 1872.
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C18 landscape park, partly built over, on C17 formal layout depicted c1710 by Kip, c1715 onwards by John Vanbrugh for Sir Edward Southwell, c1760 by Robert Mylne for Edward Southwell Ill, minor alterations by ‘Capability’ Brown 1777, now in divided ownership and much decayed; very early example of Claudean landscape and admired throughout C18; dramatic views over Avon Gorge and Severn Estuary to the mountains of Wales, especially from Penpole Point, site of huge sundial; many garden buildings, mostly ruinous; terrace with balustrade supposed to have come from 1768 Bristol Bridge when widened in 1873, now ruinous; ornamental woodland with mature specimens, laid out with paths, much overgrown; avenues; ponds. Kingsweston House and surrounds are owned Bristol City Council and 100a. of grounds presented to National Trust 1918 by Dr. Napier Miles, now Shirehampton Park and golf course.
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Categories: BristolThe former Glenside Hospital is now taken over by the University of the West of England Dept. of Health and Social Care , Manor Park Hospital is now Blackberry Hill Hospital. It is managed by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
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Municipal park 1884-90: informal layout of paths, mature trees and shrubberies; pond; perimeter stream; play area. Decorative urinal (LB II) late C19, cast-iron with filigree dome.
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C18 landscape park on C16/C17 royal forest site, improved c.1800 by Humphry Repton for Thomas Graeme, municipal park since 1937: mature informal parkland with fine specimen trees, remains of avenues, network of walks; picturesque wooded valley of River Frome with glenside walks, rock outcrops ornamented from earlier quarries; island, boat-house (now lost) area with dense planting of bamboo, aucuba, rhododendron, other shrubs; ornamented stream with pools cascade and bridges; cottages ornées (now lost); C.20 additions; children’s playground, playing fields and changing rooms, depot on site of former walled garden; modern planting of decorative trees and shrubs in central area; safety fencing above river glen; layout otherwise intact. House c.1600, demolished 1960. Part Stapleton & Frome Valley Conservation Area.