One of the world's most famous landscape gardens, laid out in the 18th century around a lake by the banker Henry Hoare. A walk around the lake reveals a Pantheon, temples, a grotto and a Palladian bridge, each placed to be seen like a painting.
The garden is at its best in late spring when the rhododendrons flower and in October for the autumn colours. The Palladian house is also open, and a longer walk leads to King Alfred's Tower, a tall brick folly on the edge of the estate.
An 18th-century landscape garden on a hillside above Bath, with one of only four Palladian bridges of its kind in the world.
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