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Lansdown


Lansdown is located in Somerset

Lansdown

Lansdown



Location within Somerset

Population 4,589 (2011.Ward)[1]
OS grid reference ST725685
Unitary authority
  • Bath and North East Somerset
Ceremonial county
  • Somerset
Region
  • South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Bath
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Avon
Ambulance South Western

EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
  • Bath


List of places

UK

England

Somerset


51°24′53″N 2°23′48″W / 51.4148°N 2.3968°W / 51.4148; -2.3968Coordinates: 51°24′53″N 2°23′48″W / 51.4148°N 2.3968°W / 51.4148; -2.3968

Lansdown is a suburb of the World Heritage City of Bath, England, that extends northwards from the city centre up a hill of the same name. Among its most distinctive architectural features are Lansdown Crescent[2] and Sion Hill Place,[3] which includes a campus of Bath Spa University.


The Battle of Lansdowne (1643) was fought in the vicinity[4] and is commemorated by Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument (1720) on Lansdown Hill.[5] Also on the hill is Beckford's Tower, an architectural folly built in neo-classical style for William Thomas Beckford in 1827.[6]


Lansdown Cricket Club, founded in 1825 and the oldest club in Somerset, originally played at a ground called "Cricket Down" next to the original racecourse on the top of Lansdown Hill and close to Beckford's Tower (the current Bath Racecourse is about a mile to the west); later the club moved into Bath at the Sydenham Field, and when that was built over by the Midland Railway in 1869 it moved to its current ground at Combe Park, which is in Lower Weston.



References





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  2. ^ "1 to 20 Lansdown Crescent". Images of England. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2006.


  3. ^ "Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-09-03.


  4. ^ "Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument". English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-07-20.


  5. ^ "Monument to Sir Bevil Grenville". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-07-20.


  6. ^ "Beckford's Tower & Mortuary Chapel, Lansdown Cemetery". Images of England. Archived from the original on 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2007-10-02.









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