Description

WEST WALKS
1.
5L9l
(East Side)
Garden wall of
No 6 running north
from the house to No 5
SY 6890 7/305
II GV
2.
C18 [Possibly dating from the laying out of West Walks between 1702 and 1712].
Red brick with some Portland or Ridgeway hammer-dressed stone. Ramped at either
end.
West Walks, Colliton Walk, and Bowling Alley Walk were laid out and planted
with an avenue of trees between 1702 and 1712. They replaced the remnants
of the former Roman ramparts. Since at very nearly the same time Louis XIV
created the first of the Grands Boulevards in Paris by precisely the same means,
the Dorchester Walks must be regarded as one of the earliest Boulevards in England,
where such things are a rarity at any period.
Nos 1 to 6 (consec),including wall between Nos 5 and 6 form a group.

Listing NGR: SY6897390544

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515298

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)