Prior Park Landscape Garden is an 18th-century landscape garden, designed by the poet Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (May 21, 1688 – May 30, 1744) was one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. Born to a Catholic family in 1688, Alexander was educated mostly outside normal schools and colleges as a result of the penal laws that were in force at... Alexander Pope and Lancelot Brown (1715/1716 - February 6, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener, now remembered as the last of the great English eighteenth_century artists to be accorded his due, and Englands greatest gardener. Born in Northumberland, he was employed by various landed families to... Capability Brown, and now owned by the The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The trust does not operate in Scotland, where there is an independent National Trust... National Trust. It is south of the For alternate meanings see Bath (disambiguation) Palladian Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath Bath is a city in south-west England, most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. The city was first recorded as a Roman spa, though verbal tradition suggests it was known before then... City of Bath, This page is about the county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. For other meanings of Somerset, see Somerset (disambiguation). Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. Somerset adjoins Gloucestershire to the north east, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south east and Devon to the... Somerset, by Prior Park Road, and 3/4 mile (1.2 km) from the Kennet & Avon canal path.

Prior Park was created by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen (1693 - June 29, 1764) was baptised at St Columb Major Cornwall on July 24 1693. As a teenager he worked at the Post Office. He moved to Bath in 1710 where he became a clerk in the Bath Post Office, and at the age of 19, in 1712... Ralph Allen from about 1734 until his death in 1764, with advice from both Alexander Pope and ‘Capability’ Brown. Allen became Mayor of Bath in 1742, having started off working in the post office. Much of the "Bath stone" so prevalent in Bath came from Allen's limestone mines under Combe Down is a village on the outskirts of Bath in the English county of Somerset, within the Bath and North East Somerset Council area. Combe Down sits on a ridge above and about two miles to the south of Bath city centre. It is made up of an old... Combe Down. Circa 1742, Allen commissioned architect John Wood to build a mansion within the park, which is now owned by Prior Park College. William Warburton (December 24, 1698 - June 7, 1779), was an English critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759. He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk. William was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714 he... William Warburton, Allen's son-in-law, lived there for some time.

The 28 acre (113,000 m²) landscape garden is set in a dramatic site running down a small steep valley, with fine views of the For alternate meanings see Bath (disambiguation) Palladian Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath Bath is a city in south-west England, most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. The city was first recorded as a Roman spa, though verbal tradition suggests it was known before then... City of Bath. Its many interesting features include a A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladios I Quattro Libri dellArchitettura, in a modestly priced English translation published in London, 1736. Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The term... Palladian bridge, Gothic Temple, Grass Cabinet, Mrs Allen's Grotto, and three lakes including the Serpentine Lake.

A 5 minute walk from the garden leads on to the Bath Skyline, a 6 mile (10 km) circular walk around the city that encompasses woodlands, meadows, an Iron Age hill-fort, Roman settlements, 18th-century follies and spectacular views.