ARCH CONNECTING WOOD WALKS FROM HERMITAGE WOOD TO LONG WOOD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321118
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: ARCH CONNECTING WOOD WALKS FROM HERMITAGE WOOD TO LONG WOOD
Statutory Address:: ARCH CONNECTING WOOD WALKS FROM HERMITAGE WOOD TO LONG WOOD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321118
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: ARCH CONNECTING WOOD WALKS FROM HERMITAGE WOOD TO LONG WOOD
Statutory Address 1:: ARCH CONNECTING WOOD WALKS FROM HERMITAGE WOOD TO LONG WOOD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ARCH CONNECTING WOOD WALKS FROM HERMITAGE WOOD TO LONG WOOD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke Gifford
National Grid Reference:: ST 61768 77574

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The following buildings shall be added to the list

ST 67 NW STOKE GIFFORD 618776 STOKE PARK 4/24 Arch connecting wood walks from Hermitage Wood to Long Wood GV II Tunnel connecting pedestrian ways, carried under carriage way. c1750, by Thomas Wright. Limestone. A short pedestrian tunnel conecting footpaths forming part of an organised perambulation in the landscaped grounds of Stoke Park Dower House (q.v) limestone coursed vault with remains of vermiculated voussoirs and keystones to the facings, partly in situ and partly in remains on ground. Considerably overgrown at the time of inspection (July 1988). The tunnel connects Hermitage Wood and Long Wood, a carriageway passing over the top. (Stewart Harding and David Lambert: 'Saving the Wizard's Landscape', Country Life, 14-4-88, pp 132-135).

Listing NGR: ST6176877574

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Legacy System number:: 35054
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1988), 132-135
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.