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Tags: woodland gardenC20 woodland gardens on C15/C16 site which originally incorporated Algars Mill. Mature native trees and recent planting of many varieties; naturalised spring bulbs. A formal garden close to the house with 19th-century planting on the driveway. Informal area of plantation along banks of the River Frome and near the mill race leading down to the Elizabethan Chill Wood. Elm trees replaced by species such as eucalyptus and Chinese rowan have been planted. Public access to 1.2ha (3a), south of River Frome, including riverside walk.
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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.
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Categories: Bath & NE SomersetEarly C20 woodland garden. Main feature of interest is a miniature cliff featuring rockery terraces and two tunnel-like vaulted summerhouses.
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C19 communal garden built 1776 to design of John Wood the Younger. Square originally completely paved. Garden now mixed planting of small trees and shrubs. Iron railings restored in the 1990’s and dedicated to those civilians of Bath killed during air raids in World War II. Access restricted to residents.
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Victorian garden, with surviving late C18/early C19 stonework.
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Late Victorian garden around older house. Features include sundial, well house and garden walls; lime avenue. some specimen trees on lawn.
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C18 pleasure ground, bounded by river and ha-ha, containing a rubble-built folly tower (the Owl Hoot). Good number of mature specimen trees and some recent planting.
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C19 garden around eccentric folly-castle, including lawns and specimen trees; walled kitchen garden, rockery and pond; well-preserved ha-ha. Paddocks and pasture.
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Mid C19 garden. featuring two-storey gazebo, walled kitchen garden, and some original planting including fine old medlar.
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Secluded, informal garden, chiefly C19: features include a summerhouse and a rockery containing a stone table on the spot where Sir William Napierreputedly wrote his History of the Peninsular Wars. Lawn terrace dates from 1956.