Prior Park
Eighteenth-century landscape garden with serpentine lake, cascade and a crossable Palladian bridge.
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This guide to Prior Park in Bath follows Augustine Baines, a Catholic bishop who bought the hillside mansion above the garden with plans far grander than a school. It touches Ralph Allen, the postal and quarry entrepreneur who built the house to be seen from all Bath, and a demolished country house nearby whose fittings turned up somewhere unexpected. Best heard down by the lake, looking up the valley at the mansion.
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