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4 unusual facts about Kings Weston House


Coombe Dingle, Bristol

South of Coombe Dingle is Sea Mills; to the north is Kingsweston Hill; to the west are Kings Weston House and Shirehampton Park; and to the east, Henbury Golf Club and Westbury on Trym proper.

Kings Weston House

Poets including Robert Southey and Walter Savage Landor also visited and wrote about the spectacle of the distant views of Wales from Kingsweston Hill and Penpole Point.

It also became a popular destination for artists of the Romantic Movement attracting the likes of James Muller, Francis Danby and Nicholas Pococke.

In 1954 the medieval Bewys Cross was moved from its location north of Napier Miles Road to a new position beside the pond.



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