Royal Victoria Park
Early Victorian public park with an arboretum, lake, bandstand and a rock-garden botanic garden.
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This guide to Royal Victoria Park in Bath follows the hands that actually made it, from the tree planter of the eighteen thirties to a gardener summoned from Kew in the eighteen eighties. It touches on the princess who opened the park, the committee who paid for it by donation, and a fungus scientist from Batheaston whose death left the park with an unusual problem. Best heard near the botanic gardens in the north-west corner.
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