Henrietta Park
Victorian jubilee park of open lawns, champion trees and a scented garden for the blind.
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This guide to Henrietta Park in Bath goes back to the eighteen nineties, when the green behind Great Pulteney Street was marshy ground on the Bathwick Estate and the city's rugby club was still looking for a home. It follows the Forester family, who owned the land, and the Victorian council that turned a borrowed field into a public park. Best heard on the circular path at the park's centre, under the oldest trees.
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