Early C19 garden, now partly built over, on early C18 site by Mrs. Jean Anderson and John Wedgwood, a founder member of the Royal Horticultural Society and son of Josiah Wedgwood: drive with mid C19 cast-iron post and chain fence; stable block, now warden’s cottage; terrace walk and orangery; terraced lawn; Pulhamite rockery; balustraded terrace walk to greenhouses; fruit and vegetable garden; paddock with mature native and exotic specimen trees. The Downs Conservation Area.    

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;

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).  

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.

Informal plantsman’s garden post 1945 on early C18 site: C18 kitchen garden; artificial stream and pools; rich, varied and unusual planting, much collected from the wild in many parts of the world; ‘wild’ woodland. Owner  – daughter of Hiatt Baker, plant collector, of Oaklands, South Gloucestershire. Within Henbury Conservation Area.

C16 manor house; estate owned by the Trottman family from Charles I’s reign to 1857. Kip depicted formal gardens in 1712, but of these little remains; now chiefly lawns and parkland with mature clumps; substantial ha-ha; pond in park; lime avenue from lodge.

Fragmented remains of C18 landscape park and C19 romantic rock valley garden: C18 avenue and specimen trees; sheer rock face and heavily wooded deep valley setting to early C19 picturesque garden features; grotto in rock face; waterfall and pond with statue; tunnel and woodland path to ornamental footbridge; long serpentine stone staircase to valley bottom, all now heavily overgrown.

Small 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.

Landscape park, 1764, by ‘Capability’ Brown for Sir William Codrington, modified 1793 by Emes and Webb, for Christopher Bethell Codrington: church; conservatory; walled kitchen garden; classical garden buildings and lodges; summerhouses; two irregular lakes linked by serpentine aqueduct and castellated Gothic cascade; 1930s terraced flower gardens with fountain; perimeter tree belt, woodlands and well-timbered park; grove of Corsican pines; specimen trees including lime, beech, oak, cedar, Turkey oak, Lucombe oak, holm oak, fern-leaved beech, walnut.