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This walk runs parallel with the Warrior’s Walk, through the same plantation of Norway Spruce although the grassed area is considerably wider.
It takes its name from the twelve marble busts of Roman Emperors that line the western side of the walk, each statue now somewhat hidden from immediate view by the tree’s growth.
First planted in 1955, with a mixture of Norway Spruce and Larch, and replanted in 1980 with Spruce and Yew after storm damage in 1979.
As the plantation matures, it has been thinned to allow the remaining trees room to grow.
Bisecting both Warrior’s and Emperor’s walks in the centre, is the Gladeway, a wide path that joins the two walks to the Arboretum.
At the eastern end stands the Copper Beech Circle with its four lead figures, two representing allegories of painting and sculpture, and two of women in classical dress.
In the centre of the gladeway stands an open temple, with its roof of verdigris copper, housing a bowl of Egyptian porphory (a type of granite) with its own small, aged copper lid.
Barry Jordan - © National Trust
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