Newton Park

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Newton Park
Newton Park from the north

Newton Park is a country house in the village of Newton St Loe, west of Bath, in the English county of Somerset . The house, listed by English Heritage as a historical building of the first degree, was built by Joseph Langton in 1762–1765 according to plans by the architect Stiff Leadbetter . During the First World War it served as a Red Cross hospital for troops from Australia and New Zealand . Today it houses Bath Spa University staff .

Property and park

The upper lake in Newton Park

The property features landscaped gardens designed by Capability Brown and now owned by the Duchy of Cornwall . The grounds are home to the ruins of Newton St Loe Castle , Elizabethan-era farms, and various fenced gardens. The park is now bordered on one side by Wells Road (A39) and extends up to the east to the residential streets of the village of Newton St Loe. Part of the park is leased to Bath Spa University, which will maintain the Georgian country house and ornamental lakes including Newton St Loe Castle. The park is a historical garden II *. Grade listed. The Corston Brook flows through the western part of the park. It is terraced and has several weirs, so that two large, naturally shaped fish ponds could be created. The stream flows into the Avon River ½ kilometers north of the park .

Just outside the northeast corner of the park is The Globe , a pub on a roundabout on the A4 highway . English Heritage has listed this pub as a Grade II Historic Building. At a point on the edge of the small woodland around the north boundary of the park begins the A39 trunk road, which runs along the western boundary of the park to the south-southwest and then west to Falmouth, Cornwall .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newton Park . In: Images of England . Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  2. ^ Howard Colvin: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 . 3. Edition. 1995. Entry: Leadbetter, Stiff .
  3. ^ History . Clifton RFC. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Newton Park, Bath, England . In: Parks & Gardens UK . Parks and Gardens Data Services Limited (PGDS). Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  5. ^ Newton Park . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  6. ^ The Globe . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 32.4 "  N , 2 ° 26 ′ 18"  W.