Orton Bradley Park
Harbourside farm park with a restored water-wheel millhouse, walking tracks and specimen trees.
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This guide to Orton Bradley Park, across the harbour from Christchurch, starts at the old undershot wheel in the millhouse and the water that drives it. It follows Orton Bradley, a clergyman's son who never married and filled his days with racehorses, brewing, rocks and trees. Best heard standing beside the wheel, where the race comes down from the valley.
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