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Category Archives: Green Space – Palace Park
The Ha-ha! – Grade II Listed
The Ha-ha features as a stop in our Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here. The Ha-ha remained a fashionable feature of a stately home’s grounds for many years, because it also had a practical value. Instead of some ugly fence … Continue reading
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Last fragment of the Medieval Moat
This feature is stop 3 on the Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here. The original moat of the Bishops Palace – the homes of important people, such as Bishops, needed moats in the lawless years of the 1100s ‘Anarchy’ – … Continue reading
The Pulhamite Cascade – Grade II Listed
The Cascade is also a stop on our Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here. The Pulhamite Cascade Installation (Grade II Listed by Historic England) The Cascade is one of the stops on our Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here. This … Continue reading
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The Old Bishops Palace
There is a stop on the Bromley Town Centre trail about the Old Bishops Palace (where you can view it from the Eastern Lawn), see here. 1000 years of Bishops of Rochester in Bromley The Bishops of Rochester lived at … Continue reading
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The Pulhamite Fernery
The fernery is stop 2 in our Bromley Palace Park trail, see here. The Fernery is one of the four Grade 2 listed features in the park. When Coles-Child bought the title of ‘Lord Of The Manor’ of Bromley from … Continue reading
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New Virtual Tour – A visit to Bromley Palace and Park!
Join us for a close look at the 18th century Bromley Palace, now the nerve centre of Bromley Council – we’ll also ‘walk’ around the secluded Park behind the Palace The 18th century Bromley Palace was the Georgian home of the Bishops of Rochester. It was transformed in … Continue reading
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Ice-well and Summer-house and Boat-store.
The ice-house features on our Bromley Town Centre Parks trail, as stop 5, here. This elegant Arts & Crafts porch was the Victorian ‘pimping-up’ of the existing, and functioning, ice-well. Before there were refrigerators, there was still a fashion for … Continue reading
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Bromley Palace Park – St Blaise’s Well.
See also the entry for The Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, for the well, here. St Blaise’s well was rediscovered in 1754 (by the Bishop’s domestic chaplain, a Rev Mr Hardwick); a worker showed him a spring, seeping into the … Continue reading
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The Lord of the Manor’s Folly
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Palace Park – 1732 Lead Cistern
This lead cistern says that it was installed by Bishop of Rochester, Joseph Wilcocks. He carried out renovations and improvements to the palace. Thanks to Bromley Borough Local History. The whereabouts of the cistern is not now know, it was … Continue reading
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