American Museum & Gardens
Regency manor of American decorative arts, period rooms and quilts above a wooded river valley.
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This guide to the American Museum and Gardens near Bath sets aside the quilts and period rooms for a summer afternoon in July eighteen ninety-seven, when the Skrine family opened Claverton Manor's grounds to a Primrose League fete. Its speaker was a young army officer on leave from India, standing up to make a political speech for the first time. Best heard on the lawns with the Limpley Stoke Valley in front of you.
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