Albion Place Gardens, Ramsgate, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

An early 19th-century public garden, embellished in the late 19th century along its southern boundary with extensive Pulhamite rockwork.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Albion Place Gardens lie in the centre of Ramsgate, on the cliffs north-west above Kent Terrace and the harbour-front buildings below on Harbour Parade, and immediately to the north of the main east/west road leading inland from the harbour to the High Street. The 0.36 hectare registered site, which is roughly triangular in shape and slopes very gently from east to west, is bounded to the north-west and north-east by internal belts of tall, dense, largely evergreen shrubbery and trees which are fenced from the roads serving the enclosing terraces of Albion Place (nos 1-6, 10-15, and Albion House listed grade II) by lengths of aluminium railings, these replacing earlier iron railings shown surrounding the entire gardens in an engraving of 1854 (reproduced in Land Use Consultants 1997). The south side of the gardens is bounded by the rockwork gorge (listed grade II) containing Madeira Walk.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Ramsgate Town Trail, guide leaflet, (Ramsgate Society no date)

M D Mirams, Old Ramsgate (1984)

Albion Place Gardens and Wellington Crescent, Historic Landscape Survey and Restoration
Management Plan, Draft Report, (Land Use Consultants 1997)

Maps

R Collard and G Hurst, Map of Ramsgate, 1822 (Ramsgate Library)

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1872; 2nd edition published 1898; 3rd edition published 1907; 1939 edition
 

Description written: December 1997

Edited: November 2003