An 18th-century landscape garden on a hillside above Bath, with one of only four Palladian bridges of its kind in the world. The poet Alexander Pope and the landscape designer Capability Brown advised on the garden, made for the businessman Ralph Allen.
The walk down to the lakes and back up is steep. There's no car park, so walk up from the city centre or take the bus. Look back from the bridge for a view across Bath.
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One of the world's most famous landscape gardens, laid out in the 18th century around a lake by the banker Henry Hoare.
The largest stone circle in Britain, so big that part of the village of Avebury sits inside it.
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