Sites Beginning with "F"
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Isle of Man , Maughold
The garden is now a plantsman's garden created under the supervision of Miss Marjorie Cunliffe-Owen from the 1930s. Features include a moon gate and Japanese stone lantern.
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England , Wraxall
Failand House has a late-19th-century garden. It has clipped yew hedges, lawns and a walled garden. There is also an ornamental wood with many specimen trees planted by Sir Edward Fry from 1874.
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England , Failsworth
Failsworth Lodge is a house with grounds and a wooded park occupying about 13 hectares. The 18th century Lodge is now used as a recreation centre. The original ponds and mills no longer survive and the park is now a sports ground.
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England , Faintree, Chetton, Shropshire
In the 19th century, Faintree Hall lay within a park which extended to the east.
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Scotland , Muir of Ord
The designed landscape at Fairburn dates from the late-18th and early-19th centuries. It consists largely of gardens and woodland. The site is known for its specimen trees, especially the exotic conifers planted by John Stirling in the late-19th century. The structure of the formal garden can still be discerned in paths and grass terraces.
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England , Bridgwater
Fairfield has enclosed gardens of around 5.4 hectares within a park. There is an 18th-century walled garden and 19th-century pleasure grounds. Features include a number of listed ancilliary buildings close to the house, three gate lodges and a cider orchard.
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England , Greater London
Croydon College of Technology and the Fairfield Halls opened in 1962 and Fairfield Gardens were laid out as ornamental gardens and ponds over an underground car park, designed in the modernist geometric style that was gaining popularity.
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England , Hambledon, Waterlooville
Fairfield House is a Regency building (listed grade II). Associated with it is an informal garden on chalk with extensive walls (remains of the large walled kitchen garden). The site had an icehouse. There are fine mature trees and a shrubbery, outstanding climbing roses and a variety of small trees and wildflower meadow.
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England , Tameside, Greater Manchester
Fairfield Mill was a textile mill in grounds to the north of Manchester Road. The site was bounded by a canal to the east and fields to the north and west. The mill was built of red brick of several phases. The most recent part had an 'AD 1913' keystone. An Italianate water tower is situated to the front of the site. There was an associated brick warehouse and an office block of mid- to late-19th-century date. There was a park to the west in 1848, with a wooded boundary. A small, unidentified building within the park was developed as Birch Farm by 1895. The mill was greatly extended and the boundary belt was thinned. Surrounding housing and industrial development was also extended. The site is now lost. The park has been built over, and the mill was demolished in 1993.
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England , Tameside, Greater Manchester
Fairfield Moravian Settlement was a settlement in grounds to the north of Manchester Road. The site was bounded by a canal to the north-east and Annital Lane to the north-west. There were open fields to the south-west. There was an open, fan-shaped area to the south, with a drive linking the settlement with Manchester Road. By 1895 there had been substantial encroachment, and the burial ground had been closed. The buildings were extant, but the open areas had been developed. The site is now lost.
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England , London
Today the site is used for sports and informal recreation. It is a rectangular, largely grassed site that still has its Victorian railings. It is divided north / south by a path flanked by an avenue of mature lime trees, with trees around its perimeter including lime and London plane. Silver maple and cherry are among other trees planted in the park.
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England , Gloucestershire
This was what Verey described as 'an almost perfect Restoration composition' of house, garden and park, built next to the church and village of Fairford. Its formal Franco-English style was altered in the 18th century, first to a Rococco syle and then to the landscape style. The mansion was demolished in 1957 and a school was built on the site. The park and gardens reverted to farmland. Verey describes this as a 'tragic loss'.
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England , Sevenoaks
Historic parkland of unknown size or origin.
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England , Greater London
Hornchurch UDC, having acquired Langtons in 1929, then purchased Fairkytes in 1951 although its garden was not fully incorporated into Langtons pleasure garden. The Council used Fairkytes as a library from 1953 and since 1972 it has been the home of Havering Art Centre.
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England , London
In 2005 the park was designated solely for the use of children under 12 and in 2009 was renamed Fairland Park with improvements undertaken by Groundwork Trust. Money was raised locally with help from Friends of Fairland Park, in addition to funds from LB Haringey.
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England , London
Fairlands Park is an undulating landscape with tarmac walk and cycle path, with trees and shrubs.
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England , Sevenoaks
Formal gardens dating from the late 17th century of unknown size. The gardens are now greatly altered.
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Scotland , Dundonald
Fairlie is situated on the banks of the River Irvine. The present designed landscape more or less retains its mid-19th-century layout and includes a walled garden.
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England , London
Gravel pits were flooded to create lakes and the site was then opened as a country park and golf course. There are now three lakes, one of which is used for boating.
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England , Wallingford
Fairmile Hospital was built in 1868-70 as the pauper asylum for Berkshire. The total site covers 39 hectares, of which the gardens are about 26 hectares in area. The gardens include 6 hectares of airing courts, gardens and pleasure grounds, and about 20 hectares of kitchen gardens, orchards and paddocks.