MuseumsWiltshire

At Stonehenge, the unparalleled stone circle 3000 BC‐1600 BC is surrounded by a ceremonial landscape comprising more than 300 burial mounds and many other prehistoric remains. There is nothing quite like Stonehenge anywhere in the world and for 5000 years it has drawn visitors to it.It's thought that…

Woodhenge is a Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age monument originally made up of a series of concentric circles of wooden poles within a circular bank and ditch.The site originally consisted of 6 rings of wooden posts radiating out from a central point. They were enclosed within an…

Voted 'UK Family Attraction of the Year' by the Good Britain Guide, Longleat offers a wonderland of attractions to suit all ages/pp/ppSet in more than 900 acres of 'Capability' Brown landscaped parkland with a further 8,000 acres of woodlands, lakes and farmland, Longleat combines the magic of the…

STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway is housed in a beautifully restored Grade II railway building in the heart of the former Swindon railway works. The Museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Railway -…

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.…