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Blaise Hamlet

Bristol, England

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle. 

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Blaise Hamlet is an amazingly quaint and twee hamlet of nine individual cottages around a small green.  Designed by John Nash, they were built around 1811 for retired employees of John Harford, who owned Blaise Castle House a couple of hundred meters away.

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Free entry. Just walk around the houses. You can park on the road just outside. Just bear in mind that people actually live in these houses.

Blaise castle nearby has a great play park for kids and a museum of 17th c. toys and tools.

architecture
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