Communal garden 1788-1840’s: three rectangular compartments separated by roads and enclosed by cast-iron railings; grass with fine trees and shrubs. Within Clifton Conservation Area.  

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.

Communal garden for square laid out in 1730, designed by John Strahan. Now a small rectangular lawn, enclosed with wrought iron railings.

Communal garden for crescent built c1790-early C19. Area in front of crescent originally formal garden; by 1848 informal layout in place.

Communal garden, originally a formal layout by John Wood, with elaborate parterres. Now a C19 town garden with grass and mature trees.

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.

ARNO’S VALE CEMETERY, Arno’s Vale Garden cemetery 1837, later extended to c45a; Arcadian layout with serpentine walks on steep site; mature trees. Pair of Neo-Greek Doric lodges (LB II*) 1837-38; entrance gates and screen walls 1837; Church of England Chapel (LB II*) c1840, Dissenters’ Chapel (LB II*) c1840, all Charles Underwood; Indian Romantic style tomb of Rajah Ram Mohun Roy Bahadoor (LB II*) 1843; neo-classical tomb of James Bartlett 1851; Gothic table tomb of Thomas Lucas 1859 by Tyley; obelisk 1866 by Tyley; obelisk to Francis Barber Ogden 1857 by Tyley; Gothic pinnacle to John Tilly mid C19 and adjacent obelisk mid C19; War Memorial c1920, (all LB II).

BRANDON HILL, Bristol Bristol’s earliest public park, granted to the Corporation 1174 by Robert Earl of Gloucester, 4a. at summit acquired by Corporation from Tewkesbury Abbey 1581; remains of Civil War defensive earthworks 1643  (Scheduled Ancient Monument); walks and walls 1845; Cabot Tower 1897-98 on site of Russian guns 1857 on site of medieval St. Brendan’s Chapel; specimen trees and shrubs; water and rock garden 1936-37; heather garden 1949-50; bowling green; play area; nature park c.1980.

Communal garden, grassed central area with group of mature trees. The Circus was built to designs by Wood the Elder, 1754-69. In the C18 it was cobbled, with a pump in the centre; documentary evidence points to a garden being laid out and trees planted between 1800 and 1808; railings surrounding central area removed 1939-45.

Communal garden 1788, altered 1953-54: unenclosed grass square with diagonal paths; trees; rose beds. Brunswick Chapel 1834, recent restoration of surrounding Georgian architecture. Portland Square Conservation Area.