Newton Park is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of

Newton St Loe Newton St Loe is a small Somerset village and civil parish located close to the villages of Corston and Stanton Prior, between Bath and Bristol in England. The majority of the village is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The parish has a populat ...

, Somerset, England, situated west of Bath.

History

Newton Park was built in 1762–5 by Joseph Langton (grandson of Joseph Langton (c.1637–1719), of Newton Park,

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for Bath from 1690 to 1695,) to the design of

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. Newton Park was the ancestral home of the women's rights campaigner Lady Anna and M.P. William Henry Powell Gore-Langton (1824 1873). The house was used as a Red Cross hospital to house

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. Newton Park is currently home to the administrative staff of

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Grounds and park

The estate includes a landscaped park, near the village of

, designed by Capability Brown, and now owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. It was laid out on land containing the 14th century keep and gateway of St Loe's Castle, a fortified medieval manor house, Elizabethan farm buildings, and various enclosed gardens. The park is today bounded on the north side by the A39 Wells Road and reaches right up to the residential roads of the village of

to its east, and very close to the village of Stanton Prior in the west and south west. Some of the park is leased to

, which maintains the historic Georgian manor house and ornamental lakes, as well as Newton Saint Loe Castle. The park is Grade II* listed. Corston Brook flows through the west of the park and can be described as terraced, with numerous weirs, which have allowed for the creation of two large fish ponds, naturally shaped, by the main buildings. 500 metres north of the park the brook feeds into the Avon. The north-east point of the park narrowly excludes ''The Globe'', a public house on the roundabout junction of the

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, which is Grade II

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and a point on the edge of minor woods around the northern grounds marks the start of the

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which extends from the grounds (just north of a listed pair of gatepiers, railings, outpiers and flanking quadrant walls to the park) SSW then W to

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References

{{Bath Spa University , state=collapsed Bath Spa University Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset Grade I listed educational buildings Duchy of Cornwall Buildings by Stiff Leadbetter English gardens in English Landscape Garden style Gardens by Capability Brown