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Probably the best garden visit you could ever make awaits you at Abbey House Gardens in ancient Malmesbury, itself an historic place to visit. Gardening ideas, beautiful plants from daffodils, crocus, tulips and iris in spring through the country's l...
Malmesbury is a beautiful hilltop town on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, built to a Saxon road plan round a Norman abbey. Archaeological digs have shown there was a Neolithic fort here around 2,500 BC - people have lived here for four and a half...
Although the majority of the collection is Cars, the Museum also houses an impressive collection of Lorries, Motorcycles, Mopeds, Push bikes, a large selection of vehicle manuals and other archive material....
World-famous stone circle at the heart of a prehistoric landscape. One of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe is spread over a vast area at Avebury, much of it under Trust protection. The great stone circle, encompassing part of the vil...
16th-century manor house with lovely Edwardian garden. A much-altered house of monastic origin, the present buildings date from the early 16th century, with notable Queen Anne alterations and Edwardian renovation. The garden was completely redesigned...
The ancient earthworks known as Barbury Castle are about five miles south of Swindon and the M4, on the northern edge of the Marlborough Downs.
The main focal points of the park are the Iron Age hill fort, covering about twelve acres, adjacent ro...
The exhibits consist of a large number of carved stone features, mostly humorous....
Considered to be one of Wiltshire's greatest hidden treasures, Bowood House & Gardens is open to visitors between April and November. For those wishing to escape into an oasis of outstanding natural beauty, the 'Capability' Brown grounds designed in ...
The main feature of the museum is the re-creation of the Christopher Pharmacy which was opened in c1863 and closed in c1986. The museum also features the natural and social history of Bradford-on-Avon and its surrounding area....
Bradford-on-Avon Tithe Barn is a spectacular medieval monastic barn with slate roof and wooden-beamed interior....
Below an Iron Age hillfort, enclosing a much earlier long barrow, stands the Westbury White Horse. Cut into the hillside in 1778, this replaced an older horse, possibly commemorating King Alfred's nearby victory over the Vikings....
Sister of Gerald, the late 6th Earl of Bradford, and former wife of the late Viscount Cowdray, the late Lady Anne Cowdray created a magical garden during the sixty three years that she was living at Broadleas. Sadly she died at the end of May 2009, j...
Brokerswood is an 80 acre country park, once part of the Royal Forest of Selwood, with fishing lake, heritage centre, picnic area, barbeques, two adventure playgrounds and undercover play area for under 6s. Through the heart of Brokerswood journeys t...
Bulford Kiwi Hill Figureis a large figure, in the shape of a Kiwi. On the slope of Beacon Hill just above Bulford Camp....
Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre is located in a fine 18th century grade II listed building in the Market Place. Our permanent displays tell the story of this historic market town, from prehistoric times up until the present day. You can discover ...
Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm Park and Rabbit World is a converted milk dairy farm, set in beautiful countryside on the Wiltshire and Hampshire border only 4 miles from Stonehenge, with views to Salisbury Cathedral. Offering a relaxing experience for a...
For thousands of years iron ore has been mined at Clearwell Caves. You can still meet a Free Miner here; men whose ancient birthright entitles them to dig for minerals within the Hundred of St Briavels and the Royal Forest of Dean.
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Corsham Court, a Royal Manor in the days of the Saxon Kings and now home of the Methuen family, is based on an Elizabethan house dating from 1582. It was bought by Paul Methuen in the mid-18th century to house a collection of 16th and 17th century It...
The Museum, despite its small size, houses more than 8,000 items in its collection and, on 23rd March 2006, was awarded full accreditation by the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (the MLA)....
Situated in the Wiltshire countryside 6 miles from the picturesque market town of Marlborough, this Grade 1 listed building houses two magnificent Cornish beam engines, one of which (the 1812 Boulton and Watt) is the oldest working beam engine in the...
Mansion in striking maritime situation designed in Roman Thermae style by Robert Adam. His equally monumental wings were subsequently demolished, but replaced in 1890 by William Young. Interior includes famous Marble Hall of Staffordshire alabaster. ...
Charming 15th-century manor house and garden. Completed in 1480, the manor house is enhanced by a moat and gatehouse and has beautiful oriel windows and a great hall. The house and garden were restored c.1905-11 by Major R. Fuller, whose family live ...
Hamptworth Lodge, the jewel in the crown at the centre of the estate is a magnificent Jacobean style manor house and although rarely open to the public, is available to hire for wedding ceremonies and receptions and other corporate and private events...
The earthworks of a Neolithic henge and monumental mound, by a loop in the River Avon....
The grand Edwardian-style gardens at Hazelbury were laid out by the not-then-naked gardeners (see The Abbey House) in the 1970s and 1980s. Fine topiary, deep and colourful herbaceous borders, a circle of menhirs and a laburnum walk are the principal ...
Heale House and its eight acres of beautiful gardens lie beside the river Avon at Middle Woodford, just north of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Much of the house is unchanged since King Charles II hid here in 1651.
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Jungle Parc is based in the picturesque grounds of Lydiard House and Park. The course is suitable for children as young as 3 ½ up to approx. 11 years old (minimum height 1.05m)....
Country house created out of a medieval abbey, the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, a pioneer of photography. Founded in 1232 and converted into a country house c.1540, the fine medieval cloisters, sacristy, chapter house and monastic rooms of the A...
Set in the outstanding landscape of the Cranborne Chase, these beautifully laid out gardens were created by General Pitt Rivers in 1880. Originally designed as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment", the Larmer Tree is an extra...
Late 15th-century stone house. Built in Tudor times, the house was altered in the 17th century and has a 20th-century Catholic chapel. The three principal rooms on the ground floor are open to visitors and furnished with vernacular oak furniture....
Longleat features a host of amazing attractions all rolled into one magical day out! Enjoy close encounters with exotic animals in the Safari Park, discover the magnificent Longleat House, get lost in the giant Hedge Maze and much, much more!
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Ludgershall Castle and Cross ruins and earthworks are of a royal castle dating mainly from the 12th and 13th centuries, frequently used as a hunting lodge. The remains of the medieval cross stand in the centre of the village....
Lydiard Park is a beautiful historic parkland on the western edge of Swindon. The Palladian house, restored 18th Century Walled Garden, 260 acre parkland and children's play area offer something for everyone, all year round. With a programme of speci...
Founded by St Aldhelm in Saxon times. Pavise/treasury containing c1407 manuscript bible and other books, and historical exhibits. Outstanding south porch. Burial place of King Athelstan (c895-940), the first king of all England. Situated in an attrac...
The home of the Museum is the Old Schoolmaster's House, built in 1846. The museum illustrates village life and work mainly from Victorian times to the present day. Basket making, brick making and brewing have been local industries in the past.
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MERE MUSEUM was founded in 1970. At that time a new Public Library was being set up in the old National School in Church Street. The school had been built in 1839 on the initiative of Dean Pearson of Salisbury who gave the site and opened the school ...
Elegant and spacious 18th-century house in the Cathedral Close. The house, featured in the award-winning film Sense and Sensibility, has magnificent plasterwork and a fine oak staircase. As well as pieces of good-quality period furniture, the ...
The National Monuments Record is English Heritage's public archive. Our collection of seven million photographs dates from the 1840s to the present day. It covers all parts of England and includes images of historic buildings, streetscapes, gardens a...
Netheravon Dovecote is a charming 18th-century brick dovecote, still with most of its 700 or more nesting boxes....
Discover the story of the original Salisbury and take the family for a day out to Old Sarum, 2 miles north of where the city stands now. The mighty Iron Age hill fort was where the first cathedral once stood and the Romans, Normans and Saxons have al...
One of England's most romantic castles, in a secluded lakeside setting Built in the late 14th century for John, fifth Lord Lovel, this unusual six-sided castle was unique in medieval English architecture. Not only was it a secure house, it was also a...
This Grade I Italian-style garden is famous for its tranquil beauty and was the home of architect and landscape gardener, Harold A. Peto from 1899 to 1933. This unique and romantic hillside garden is characterised by steps,
terraces, sculpture and...
Early 19th-century neo-Grecian house. Designed by Jeffry Wyatville for William Wyndham, the house was completed in 1820. The principal rooms on the ground floor are open to visitors and contain fine Regency furniture. Both the house and the surroundi...
A friendly museum in a Grade 1 listed building. Winner of six major awards including a Museum of the Year award and the English Tourist Board England for Excellence. The archaeology collections are Designated Collections of national importance.
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In 2008, arguably Britain's finest 13th century gothic Cathedral is celebrating the 750th anniversary of the dedication of the completed Cathedral in 1258. There will many exciting events to celebrate this occasion, including: the Medieval Fayre (5th...
Sheldon Manor is Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house with a 13th century porch and a 15th century chapel. Gardens with ancient yews, a mulberry tree and a profusion of old fashioned roses blooming in May and June.
The earliest documentary evi...
Silbury Hill is the largest man-made mound in Europe, huge and mysterious Silbury Hill is comparable in height and volume to the roughly contemporary Egyptian pyramids. Probably completed by about 2350 BC and part of the Avebury 'sacred landscape', i...
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 Gr...
The great and ancient stone circle of Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world. What visitors see today are the substantial remnants of the last in a sequence of such monuments erected between circa 3000BC and 1600BC. Each monument was a circula...
Ancient ceremonial landscape of great archaeological and wildlife interest. The Trust owns 850 hectares (2,100 acres) of downland surrounding the famous monument, including The Avenue, King Barrows Ridge, Normanton Down Barrows and the Cursus, the la...
Celebrated 18th-century landscape garden and Palladian mansion. An outstanding example of the English landscape style, this splendid garden was designed by Henry Hoare II and laid out between 1741 and 1780. Classical temples, including the Pantheon a...
Stourton House Flower Garden is a nineteenth century house with a 4 acre plantsman's garden. It has a woodland garden, a winter garden, secret garden, lily pond and herbaceous garden....
Swindon's remarkable art collection now has a reputation as one of the best of British 20th Century Art outside London. Housed in the Swindon Art Gallery, it was established by local benefactor, H J P Bomford, during 1944 from a generous donation of ...
Traditional agricultural estates encompassing villages, farms and woodland. On the western border of Oxfordshire in the heart of the Thames Valley, the Buscot & Coleshill Estates are made up of 3,035 hectares (7,500 acres) that include the attractive...
Delightful English country garden. An example of the English style at its best, the garden is full of charm and variety. There are many interesting plants and an imaginative use of colour, with surrounding topiary, ornaments and water features. The g...
Created in the early 18th century out of the ruins of a substantial 12th century earthwork castle, The Moot Garden in Downton is now owned by a charity, open to the public, and mostly managed by volunteers.
There is no record of the state of the r...
The museum tells the story of the creation, restoration and re-opening of the waterway link between the Thames and Bristol, through the people involved with planning, building, working and restoring the Kennet and Avon Canal. Combine a visit with a c...
The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum showcases the service to sovereign and country from 1743 of the men of Berkshire and Wiltshire. It highlights the actions of the regiments and individuals over the last 270 years. There are examples of mu...
Begun in about 3000 BC, the Sanctuary was originally a complex circular arrangement of timber posts, which were later replaced by stones. These components are now indicated by concrete slabs. Its function remains a mystery: possibly it enshrined the ...
Step back into a bygone era and take a ride on Wiltshire's only standard gauge steam train at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway. The railway has been entirely reconstructed by volunteers who, twenty years ago, took over an empty trackbed. Today it is...
The Dewey Museum offers a fascinating insight into local history and contains a wealth of information on a range of topics. The collection contains many historic artefacts that have been collected over a period of some centuries. There is little or n...
An 'avenue', originally of around 100 pairs of prehistoric standing stones, raised to form a winding 1.5 mile ritual link between the pre-existing monuments of Avebury and The Sanctuary....
5th-century stone manor house. 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....
Wilton House has many impressive state rooms including the remarkable Double Cube room which sites the world famous collection of Van Dyck paintings. This room has been the setting for many famous films such as Mrs. Brown , Sense and Sensibility, and...
Neolithic remains of three concentric rings of ditches, enclosing an area of almost 5,000 square metres (21 acres)....
Woodhenge is a neolithic monument, dating from about 2300 BC, with concrete markers replacing six concentric rings of timber posts, once possibly supporting a ring shaped building....
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