On Sunday 19 April Prior Park Landscape Garden played host to World Heritage Day in Bath.

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This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

UNESCO: World Heritage

Only towards the end of the century did the English landscape garden, as developed by Brown, come into fashion there, with both George Washington at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson at Monticello devising distinctive versions of the genre.

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Bancroft first began designing and planting her dry garden's desert landscape in 1972.

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The idea was recently awarded the top prize in the " High Line for London" competition run by the UK's Landscape Institute in partnership with the Mayor of London and the Garden Museum.

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