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* High rises in the Local Plan
* housing and a hotel on the civic centre (old palace)
and
* 16+ high rises from the draft Master Plan down the Lower High Street
* and there's others...
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 9/1 (Gatehouse & Palace Farm)
To continue the Heritage Trail, go down the alleyway, and when it emerges onto Rochester Avenue, turn right into the former civic centre. Cross the car park diagonally to the large beech tree. Just down the old Carriage Drive is St Blaise’s Well. Continue reading
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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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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/4 (Cascade & Ha-Ha)
To continue the Heritage Trail, take a few more paces down the Carriage Drive to reach an elegant porch. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/6 (Old Bishops Palace)
To continue the Heritage Trail, follow the path past the buildings and look for a gate in the hoardings, go through this and follow the path through the shrubbery to the Gates and the Folly. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/7 (The Folly)
To continue the Bromley Town Parks Heritage Trail, turn right, go uphill on Rafford Way, and behind the brick wall you can cross the Bypass via a bridge or at street level. On the other side is Queens Gardens, where the next stop is. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/3 (Moat)
To continue the Heritage Trail, carry on walking down the Carriage Drive. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/2 (The Fernery)
To continue the Heritage Trail, retrace your footsteps back to the carriage drive and follow it around the Moat. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/1 (St Blaises Well)
To continue the Heritage Trail, follow the little path (on the right hand side of the Carriage Drive) and on your right there is a rocky cliff – this is the fernery. 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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