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Parks and Gardens in the South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority.
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Remains of early C19 garden on site of Battle of Lansdown, 1640; ruined summerhouse; tree-lined drive; mature trees. Landscape Park (Post Medieval – 1540 AD to 1900 AD) Landscape garden attached to Lilliput Castle the predecessor of Battlefield House was built for John Wood the Elder for Jeremiah Pierce in 1738.
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Categories: South GloucestershireZoological reserve and breeding ground on site of Romantic landscape park, 1814 for Sir John Davis, further landscaping 1907 for Sir Stanley White: Tower in early parkland with 1815 oak avenue; extensive woodlands with now overgrown walks and ruinous summerhouses in picturesque style; remains of water cascade; ornamental ponds. Webb’s Brake water garden with miniature boat house; 1907 rockery and plant collection, part of rockery and statuary removed to Bristol Zoo; model farm; kitchen garden; C19 specimen trees, orchard, pleached hazel walk now abandoned. There is evidence that the garden and park were laid out by the Maule family of Easton near Bristol, seedsmen, plantsmen, surveyors and landscape architects, James Maule having been brought down from Scotland in 1769 to serve as head gardener and surveyor to William Codrington at nearby Dodington House.(qv) Estate sold to Bristol Zoo, c1950s, with unfulfilled covenant requiring public display of animals in extensive enclosures. It became the Wild Place Project and is then the Bristol Zoo Project in 2023
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C19 garden: mature specimen trees on lawns; kitchen garden with old espaliers; old orchard, garden walls; stone niche; sundial; various stone ornaments; C19 greenhouse.
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Categories: South GloucestershireFormerly known as Conifers. C18 stone prospect tower and gate piers in style of Thomas Wright who worked nearby at Stoke Park (qv). Also ha-ha, mature ornamental conifers and group of giant sequoias. Now a Hotel
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Medieval site, now a working farm. Evidence of Roman era remains, Of garden interest for its C17 bee-boles; C17 canal; orchard; sundial.
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Categories: South GloucestershireFormerly large garden now subdivided and partly built over: garden folly consisting of storehouse, perhaps icehouse, surmounted with earth mound and top 6m of spire of Winterbourne Church, damaged by lightning, 1871, now outside present ownership.
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Garden, pleasure grounds and woodland laid out 1913 on a C17 site by Edward Warren for Russell Thomas. Much planting and gazebo remain from this period; modern planting; new woodlands; new lake.
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Tags: terracesRemains of C18 formal garden on an earlier C17 site: C18 terraces; C17 canal; rose garden; sundial. Orangery has steps leading up to canal, partitioned off to form a swimming pool. Old rose garden and terraced herb garden
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Categories: South GloucestershireC18 garden on an earlier site: remains of extensive formal gardens and ponds; walled formal garden with vases; kitchen garden; icehouse; terrace and steps; topiary; moat; extensive woodlands. Churchill wood and Roundhouse wood both planted 1840-60.
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Garden on earlier site: densely planted, mostly recent but with mature trees, beech, ash, cedar, pines, medlar; terrace, urns by Lutyens from Eaton Hall, battlemented wall with miniature turrets; pond and fountain; C15 stone columns from Verona; aviary; pleached lime walk possibly created with guidance from Rosemary Verey; wild garden.