Bath is one of the pleasantest towns in England and a good base for garden visits. Prior Park has no car parking but a bus service operates from Bath, or you can walk. The other gardens are best visited by car: Claverton Manor is 2 miles south of Bath; Bowood is 15 miles north east of Bath; the delightful garden made by Harold Peto at Iford Manor is 7 miles south east of Bath.
Claverton Manor Garden
Claverton Manor Garden »
An eighteenth century house designed by Jeffry Wyatville and the home of the American Museum. The gardens are a subtle blend of both the remnants of the old manorial pleasure grounds and parkland landscape. Many period features dating from the 1820s survive, including the grotto, the balustrade and curtain walling as well as ornamental stone work. Attributed to George Vivian, son of the original owner of Claverton Manor, John Vivian, they are laid out in the Italianate style of the mid 1800s. The garden has beautiful views of the Limpley Stoke Valley. There is a re-creation of George Washington's Garden at Mount Vernon, an Arboretum with a collection of American trees, 2 walking trails, Colon.....
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Prior Park Landscape Garden
Prior Park Landscape Garden »
A famous landscape park with a beautiful Palladian Bridge. Lancelot Brown worked here and, although what he did is not known exactly, it is one of the most perfect examples of the Serpentine Style.
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Bowood Gardens
Bowood Gardens »
<p>An eighteenth century house and park with a nineteenth century 'Italian' garden. Lancelot Brown's plan for the park survives and is one of the clearest examples of his <a href="http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/historic_design_styles/serpentine_garden_design_style">serpentine style of garden design</a>. It has circular clumps, an encircling tree belt and a serpentine lake. A Doric temple sits beside the lake. The lake discharges via a cascade designed by <a href="http://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/charles_hamilton">Charles Hamilton</a> of <a href="http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/painshill_park">Painshill</a>. The conservatory was designed b.....
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The Peto Garden, Iford Manor
The Peto Garden, Iford Manor »
<p>A Tudor/Georgian house with a fine twentieth century garden. It nestles in the valley of the River Frome.</p>
<p>The Peto garden belonged to the Arts and Crafts designer Harold Peto, from 1899 to 1933, and shows his love of Italy. It has a cloister garden of Pompeian scale, terraces, columnar cypresses and Peto's vast collection of statues, urns, sarcophagi and terracotta.</p>
<p><a href="https://tourguides.viator.com/sightseeing-tours-london-united-kingdom-16361.aspx">Private garden tour to Iford Manor</a></p>
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