Lansdown,

Lansdown, a hill (813 feet) to the north of Bath, commanding a prospect of exceptional beauty. Here stands a tower of 130 feet, built by Beckford, and two miles beyond was fought the battle of Lansdown, 5th July 1643, when Waller's entrenchments were stormed by the Cornish royalists. On the spot where the heroic Sir Bevil Grenville fell Lord Lansdowne raised a monument in 1723.