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.

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.

Part of the garden at Stanshaws Court, together with an additional area to the east was made into a public park during the C20.  

Municipal park, formerly part of the Hill House estate, given to the public in 1909 by A.W. Page, and laid out over the next few years. Formal structure, bordered with chiefly Corsican Pine; some flowerbeds. Elaborate wooden shelter with clock tower in centre of park; wooden hexagonal bandstand; drinking fountain 1910; fine wrought iron gates 1913; WWI cenotaph.

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.

Former communal garden, created during town expansion c1792-96. Engraving of 1852 shows plain grassland; affected by building of station 1896, and bombing 1942. Level raised by deposited river dredgings. Handsome mature trees along boundaries.

English Heritage Register Grade II (added 2002). Municipal park, laid out 1883-89 on site of Georgian housing destroyed by landslips in the 1860s and 70s. Bandstand (LB II), and wrought iron drinking fountain c1889; massive retaining walls; boundary wall with fine railings particularly on London Street.

C20 municipal park, laid out post-World War II, and extended after Great Flood of 1968; Memorial Gates opened 1952; features include recreation areas and ornamental lake; ruins of Keynsham Abbey, mill and water-wheel, award-winning Modernist bandstand demolished early 1980s.

Municipal park laid out c1887. Graceful and dignified mature tree-planting; circular walk in centre of park. George V Memorial Garden of 1937 redesigned in 1950s as garden for the blind.

Laid out in 1887 by John Milburn under direction of J.W. Morris, on the site of abortive predecessor of 1840, and extended eastwards in 1930. Their aim was to combine picturesque principles with the function of housing the C.E. Broome plant collection. Well preserved, extensive rockeries, fish pond, large botanic collection. Summerhouse, erected by Bath Corporation at Wembley in 1924 for the British Empire Collection, and re-erected at present site when the garden was enlarged in 1926; stone bridges. Adjoins Royal Victoria Park (qv).