Lansdown Crescent
Sweeping Georgian crescent above a sheep-grazed lawn, joined at one end by a library-filled arch.
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This guide to Lansdown Crescent in Bath follows William Beckford, a novelist whose fortune had faded, into the houses he bought here in the eighteen twenties, and a visitor in eighteen thirty-eight who stood before his cabinets of china. It touches the arch over the lane, a dining room hung with paintings, and the hillside behind the crescent where Beckford and his head gardener went to work. Best heard from the lawn in front of the western end, facing the arch.
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