University of Bristol Historic Gardens book
A beautifully illustrated book by Marion Mako which explores the history of the University’s gardens and the people who created them. This book is a companion to help visitors appreciate the stories behind the landscapes we enjoy today.
The University's gardens display a range of landscapes from different time periods. These include:
- Neolithic settlements around Stoke Bishop
- a Civil War fortification at the Royal Fort
- a rare merchant's eighteenth century town garden with the most exotic and best-preserved grotto in the entire country at Goldney
- a garden at Clifton Hill House, originally laid out with twin banqueting houses for alfresco entertainment
- the remnants of a Humphry Repton landscape at the Fort
- an early Victorian layout of shrubs and islands flowerbeds at Langford, where Simon Sidney Hill raised prize cattle in his ‘Bullock Palaces’
- three twentieth century gardens, which climax in the Centenary Garden at the Wills Memorial Building, commissioned to celebrate the University‘s first 100 years.
Marion Mako studied for an MA in Garden History at the University. Her book was commissioned by the University’s Historic Buildings and Gardens Committee, which was set up to advise on the care and maintenance of the University‘s historic buildings and gardens.
Money from the sale of this book will support ongoing conservation and restoration of the University’s historic gardens and landscapes.
Buy the University of Bristol Historic Gardens book
The book costs £10, including postage.
Buy The University of Bristol Historic Gardens book from the University’s online shop.