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Communal garden for Somerset Place, laid out 1791- 1820. Irregular oval garden, now informally planted with trees and shrubs. Access restricted to residents.
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Garden of grandiose mansion, laid out 1836-58. Fine mixed specimen trees and shrubs survive together with temple and pool, grotto, second pool and walled kitchen garden, recently made into car park. Balustrade and steps; ashlar Doric temple with tiled floor (LB II); tufa-built grotto (LB II).
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Communal garden for square laid out c1794 by John Palmer. Now informally planted with trees and shrubs. Access restricted to residents.
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Small town garden sloping down to the River Avon, and featuring an orangery, terraces, and a large walled garden with decorative stonework, including shell arched niche. 1712, for Henry Walters. Part of site used as a community garden.
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Ornamental and picturesque walk 1822-44. Developed by William Beckford from his two houses in Lansdown Crescent to his tower on Lansdown. Now fragmented. Surviving features include Turkish tea-house in garden of No. 20, fruit and vegetable garden, terraces, ‘embattled gateway’, Lansdown Wood now in Kingswood School, arch to grotto tunnel, panoramic views.
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Communal garden for terrace, built 1818-20, designed by John Pinch; garden possibly from same period; now informally planted with mature trees and shrubs. Access restricted to residents.
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Communal garden for crescent built 1815-30 designed by John Pinch; garden presumed to date from same period. Now informally planted with mature trees and shrubs; large retaining wall on west and south-east sides.
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Communal garden for Crescent, built 1767-75, originally overlooking common land (now Royal Victoria Park qv). Present garden is grass, bounded on road by iron railings and below by ha-ha (date not known). Access restricted to residents.
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Communal garden for Raby Place, built early C19; gardens presumably date from roughly same time. Now informal planting with mature trees and shrubs; enclosed with wrought iron railings. Access restricted to residents.
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Municipal park, thought to have been laid out in present form by the City Council c1900-10. Informal, mixed exotic shrubs and trees; paths and steps.