Tracy Park
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Tracy Park, Bath Road, Wick, South Gloucestershire
, a former private estate, is now a golf
club.
Tracy Park is thought to be the inspiration for Birtwick Park, home of Black Beauty
in the book by Anna Sewell
. The author spent part of her life at nearby Blue Lodge.
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire is a unitary district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, in South West England.-History:The district was created in 1996, when the county of Avon was abolished, by the merger of former area of the districts of Kingswood and Northavon...
, a former private estate, is now a golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
club.
Tracy Park is thought to be the inspiration for Birtwick Park, home of Black Beauty
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only...
in the book by Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.-Biography:Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family...
. The author spent part of her life at nearby Blue Lodge.