Windmill Hill
Place
South Bristol hill where Hawksmoor once builds a bower. A perch above the city before mayoralty complicates the view.
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Connections
Who is found here
- Hawksmoor Perroquet former home of (1 passage)
From the books (2 passages)
…took wing, and flew from the centre of the metropolis out over Spike Island, until he came to Windmill Hill, where he foraged and scratched around amongst the scanty twigs and grasses of that meadow, and gradually built himself a most comely bower.
…It was not, as might have been expected, upon Windmill Hill, where Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet upon his first arrival in Bristol all those years previously had built his very first bower of bliss. In point of fact, it was in what was, from the human if not the avian perspective, a rather more sequestered purlieu, viz. directly over the most ill-favoured, slimy kennel in the most impenetrable thicket pertaining to…