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The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, created in 1983, is administered by Historic England.It includes more than 1,600 sites, ranging from gardens of private houses, to cemeteries and public parks.
Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, FSA, BA, JP, DL was a soldier who acquired the estate at Tal-y-Coed through purchase and inheritance. In 1881, aged 22, he commissioned F. R. Kempson to build the house [1] on the site of Llanvihangel Hall, which had been part of the estate of Crawshay Bailey. [2]
The estate includes much of the villages of Sapperton and Coates, including Pinbury Park, and lays claim to containing the principal source of the River Thames. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] Apsley House , at Hyde Park in London, was built by the architect Robert Adam for Lord Chancellor Henry Bathurst , then known as Lord Apsley, and later the second Earl Bathurst.
The estate was among the last of the high-density public housing schemes built in London during the postwar period and is referred to as one of the most distinguished. [2] Notably, seven years before the Ronan Point disaster ended the dominance of the tower block , Lillington Gardens looked ahead to a new standard that achieved high housing ...
The house and estate, of 130 acres (53 ha), are located directly to the south of Knole Park, near to the villages of Sevenoaks Weald and Underriver. The gardens are open to the public from March to September. Originally built on the site of a Tudor farmstead in 1714, Riverhill House and estate were purchased in 1840 by John Rogers.
An attempt to sell by auction was made in 1866, but the eventual sale took place in 1867. [1] The estate was bought at that time by Charles Easton of Whiteknights, Reading – a speculator, purchased with the intention of dividing the then 800-acre estate. [1] In 1869 the estate was bought by John Noble (Noble's Paints & Varnishes).
Inkberrow is a village in Worcestershire, England, often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the fictional setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series The Archers. [1] In particular, The Bull, the fictional Ambridge pub , is supposed to be based on The Old Bull in Inkberrow.
Park and gardens [52] [53] The walled park was laid out in the 1790s, with the house at its centre. Since this time the estate has been enlarged with land beyond the wall being incorporated into the park, and the gardens expanded within parts of the original park. The main landscape feature is a natural lake, Llyn Glasfryn, to the south of the ...