The communal garden to the rear of Cornwallis Terrace Clifton, which until 1880c was known as the Lower Terrace, & for a while after that ‘Lord Cornwallis’s Terrace’. Like other terraces in Clifton, its construction was interrupted following the country’s economic crisis of 1793, due to the French Revolutionary Wars, so wasn’t completed until c1830, & even then, not to the original design. In 1851 the Crescent was descibed as “ a range of forty very fine houses, situated a little below the Royal York Crescent, & much sheltered from the north-west wind; the back commands extensive views of the opposite hills, from a south aspect, & the whole is within a few minute’s walk of the Hotwells. There is a pleasant dry walk between two lofty walls well coated with ivy & overhung with shrubs, which is the nearest way to Dowry Sq & the Hotwells etc”. Archive c/o Vaughan Collection BKYP. 1900s-2013c
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:04:10 +0000
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