A large pool, formerly part of a series of pools used by medieval monks developed for the medieval practice of farming for fish. Surrounded by mature woodland containing oak and beech trees. It was landscaped using Pulhamite,

Early C20 designed landscape  south of the house, running down in an open lawn flanked by shelter belts to an irregular octagonal pond framed by low walls, with gate piers and wrought ironwork gates. Mature trees on north side form a shelter belt, date from 1936.  

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.        

C18/early C19 pleasure grounds and park, with extensive mid-late C20 planting. George Washington’s Mount Vernon garden updated in 2017 in response to a new interpretation of the historical plans, includes four box parterre, ornamental planting, fruit trees and productive edible borders. Remnants of the old Italianate-style manorial pleasure gardens and parkland, dating from the 1820s, can be seen within the grounds, including period features such as a grotto, balustrade and curtain walling, and ornamental stonework. C19 Dutch summerhouse; panoramic views across the Limpley Stoke valley. The formal gardens were renovated in 2018 by US garden designers Oehme, van Sweden (OvS) and  include the New American Garden, the Mount Vernon Garden, and a Children’s Garden, as well as the arboretum and parkland. Named for OvS’ hallmark style, the 2.5 acre new American Garden has sweeping lawns and vistas, and large garden vignettes that embrace the aesthetic of the American meadow, with a profusion of colour, texture and movement throughout the year.

Picturesque village by John Nash with George and John Adey Repton for J.S. Harford of Blaise Castle (qv) as retirement homes for estate workers; nine cottages ornées grouped at random round irregular village green with pump 1826 and sundial; informal terrace walk linking buildings and overlooking green; high boundary wall to south and east; private cottage gardens.

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.

Early C20 formal garden, parkland and extensive kitchen garden. Estate owned by Hannah More 1784-1828; woodland walks and two urns date from her occupancy. Edwardian gardens laid out for H.H. Wills 1901-11, attributed to Harold Peto; terraces, clipped yew hedges, pavilion, rectangular pond and wooden pergola; parkland 1901-11 with some older trees; kitchen garden 1901-11.

C18 parkland, overlooking Avon valley, now in divided ownership, and chiefly agricultural use; designed by ‘Capability’ Brown 1767-68. Archaeological remains of elaborate garden of Elizabethan manor near church; estate sold C18 and new house built on site of old summerhouse. Surviving features include terrace commanding fine views; ha-ha; ornamental woodland; icehouse.

Zoological 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

Known as the ‘Hanging Gardens’ of Crew’s Hole. Remnant of ornamental pleasure ground with 18C terraces overlooking River Avon.