ATTACK OF THE HEART
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Now I’m not sure if it’s called Heart Attack Hill or if we just made it up but the official name is Star Hill and is just off the Beaufort monument and near the woods called Barn Wood where a headless horse is meant to ride in and out of the woods. Also inside Barn Woods they trees and bushes weave in and out in this weird motion which is said to be quite creepy. I’ve walked in those woods with my dog Patch alone and saw something like that and it also scared me and made me run quicker to the safe zone. Star Hill which might also be called Heart Attack Hill is where I started getting heartburn and is where I sprained my ankle walking on the uneven footpath that leads to Barn Woods. It’s just a couple of strides to the hill but it’s quite steep and breathtaking.
Something I didn’t mention but it’s next to an old asylum that is now been converted into flats. The house was built in 1553 by Sir Richard Berkeley. Rebuilt by Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt circa 1760, it eventually became used as a dower house by the dukes of Beaufort at nearby Badminton House. This included Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (the son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort) and wife Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort whose daughter’s obelisk can be found to this date on the hill she died on from falling off a horse. The Dower House from the north-east. It was used as part of Stoke Park Hospital, previously Stoke Park Colony, from 1909. The house closed as a hospital wards in November 1986 when the final remaining patients were moved to other wards, though the laundry remained for a period. The building was sold in 1991 to the Sennett and Neate families who planned to redevelop the house into a nursing home, and it was rented to the nearby University of the West of England (UWE) for lectures and seminars in the interim, while the facilities at the Frenchay campus were redeveloped. The Dower House, Stoke Park is a dower house in Bristol, England. It is one of Bristol’s more prominent landmarks, set on Purdown, a hill above the M32 motorway on the main approach into the city, and painted yellow.
