Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey is a parish church which was once the great church of a monastery. A cathedral is the principal church of a diocese, the area of a bishop's authority. The Abbey Church is classified as one of the Greater Churches group. Begun in 1499, it is…
Distance: 11.4 miles away

No 1 Royal Crescent

The Royal Crescent was built to the designs of John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1774. It is justly considered one of the finest achievements of urban 18th century architecture and represents the highest point of palladian architecture in Bath. The houses of the Royal Crescent were…
Distance: 11.9 miles away

Beckfords Tower

Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo‐classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset, England.Standing 120 feet 37 m high, the tower was completed in 1827 for local resident William Beckford to a design by Henry Goodridge. Beckford, who wished…
Distance: 11.7 miles away

Stourhead House and Garden

An outstanding example of the English landscape style, this splendid garden was designed by Henry Hoare II and laid out between 1741 and 1780. Built in the 1720s the mansion was home to the Hoare family, owners of Britain's only independent private bank surviving to the present.…
Distance: 11.2 miles away

Westwood Manor

The house was altered in the early 17th century and has late Gothic and Jacobean windows and fine plasterwork. There is a modern topiary garden.…
Distance: 6.3 miles away

Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Farleigh Hungerford was begun in the 1370s by Sir Thomas Hungerford, Speaker of the Commons, and extended in the 15th century by his son Walter, Lord Hungerford, Agincourt veteran and distinguished medieval statesman. The remains of their fortress, built in the most up‐to‐date and fashionable quadrangular style of…
Distance: 5.9 miles away

Nunney Castle

Nunney Castle is a castle in Nunney, Somerset, England.Nunney Castle Nunney Castle showing collapsed wall Nunney Castle showing above the trees and villageIt is a small, French‐style castle surrounded by a deep moat, built for Sir John Delamare in 1373. A veteran of the Hundred Years' War, Sir…
Distance: 8.1 miles away

Lackham Country Park

Nestling within the picturesque grounds of the Lackham Countryside is the Rural Life Museum. This interesting collection of machinery and artifacts of a bygone rural life are situated in a thatched barn and granary buildings.Exhibits display details of the way of life of local farming families going back…
Distance: 13.1 miles away

Prior Park Landscape Garden

Created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur Ralph Allen, with advice from 'Capability' Brown and the poet Alexander Pope, the garden is set in a sweeping valley with magnificent views of the city of Bath. There are many interesting features, including the majestic Palladian bridge, one of…
Distance: 10 miles away

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