A medieval nunnery turned into a country house, where William Henry Fox Talbot made the earliest surviving photographic negative in 1835, of an oriel window you can still see. The cloisters have appeared in many films, including the Harry Potter series.
The Fox Talbot Museum tells the story of early photography, and the village around the abbey, almost entirely owned by the National Trust, is a picture of old stone and timber houses with no modern clutter.
An 18th-century landscape garden on a hillside above Bath, with one of only four Palladian bridges of its kind in the world.
A remarkably well-preserved Roman bathing complex built around natural hot springs, with the steaming green Great Bath at its centre, surrounded by G…
The largest stone circle in Britain, so big that part of the village of Avebury sits inside it.
A Baroque house built in the late 1600s for William Blathwayt, a civil servant to William III, set at the foot of a deer park in a fold of the Cotswo…
The world's most famous prehistoric monument, a ring of huge standing stones on Salisbury Plain, built in stages from about 3000 BC; some of the ston…
One of the world's most famous landscape gardens, laid out in the 18th century around a lake by the banker Henry Hoare.
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