Plantsman’s garden, created by Canon H.N. Ellacombe, and his father Canon H.T. Ellacombe, early C19-1916: made famous through former’s books, In a Gloucestershire Garden (1895) and In my Vicarage Garden and Elsewhere (1902). Vicarage sold as private house 1951; garden has declined in condition over decades; a few old trees and shrubs survive.

HANHAM COURT, Hanham Abbots Medieval ensemble of court, church and tithe barn; manor given to Keynsham Abbey c1330. Surviving walled orchards and fish ponds; mature lime avenues; C20 tree-planting on lawn; historic woodland; field archaeology south of house.

Garden in woodland setting: mature beech and Scots pine and other specimens; plain C18 house converted to use as Dower House by Codrington family of Dodington House (qv) by addition of striking garden front enlivened by central tower with ogee roof, balustraded porch, lancet windows and pointed arch fanlight in picturesque style. Garden enclosed by 3m wall with central arch gateway surmounted by stone dragon from the Codrington crest.

Garden on earlier site: C19 arboretum with rare specimens, undergoing restoration and replanting; derelict icehouse; walled kitchen garden; C19 boating pond now formal lily pond; two ha-has; steps, piers and urns. House now a school.

C20 garden on former rectory glebe lands, C16: walled garden; orchard.  

C19 landscape park, 1843 onwards, for Earl of Ducie, on site of C15 deer park: terraced gardens, domed conservatory; walled kitchen garden; well-wooded with wide range of varieties, many exotic, huge ornamental pears, the Tortworth chestnut, laburnum and wisteria arch; 21a. arboretum noted for its American oaks, hickories, monkey-puzzles, rare exotics and unique specimens; lake with boat house, cascade and ornamental conifers. The famous chestnut is near the site of the old Manor, but the 1850 house was built on a new site 1.3 km to the South West.    

Semi-formal C19 garden remnant of extensive mid C17 estate: lawns with ha-has; C17 garden chapel; battlemented walled vinery with archway and glasshouses; walled kitchen garden; walled sunken garden; formal garden with steps and stone sphinxes, 1840, in Coade Stone produced by Coade & Sealy of Lambeth; formal ponds; many large specimen trees, ancient yews. Formerly a school. Now in residential use.

Terrace garden leading to naturalistic valley garden, from 1904 by Dr. Francis Crossman: terraces formerly contained collection of rock plants; valley garden straddling Bradley Brook; large specimens of sequoia, pines, cherries, almonds, acacias, tree cotoneaster, bamboos, rhododendrons, many unusual varieties; extensive collection of spring-flowering bulbs. A well known showpiece pre-1939 with much surviving in neglected condition. Now residential apartments.

Plantsman’s garden, created C19-20 on exposed site by the Parker family, Lords of the Manor of Upton Cheyney, by virtue of extensive shelter belts: upper and lower lawns, terrace, stone steps, pond and seat; 17th century cider mill; early C20 summerhouse;  fine specimen trees and shrub borders. John Scott Parker, O.B.E. (1872-1938) was Chief Horticultural Officer of the War Graves Commission for 14 years following World War II.    

Remains of Victorian garden: mature cypresses, oak, holm oak and shrubs; terraced lawns with steps; battlemented yew hedge; formerly with adjoining park, now partly built over.