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 Cotswold escarpment. The interiors show Dutch paintings, tapestries and blue and white Delftware.
Walk up through the deer park for the classic view down to the house, which appeared in the film The Remains of the Day.
A remarkably well-preserved Roman bathing complex built around natural hot springs, with the steaming green Great Bath at its centre, surrounded by G…
An 18th-century landscape garden on a hillside above Bath, with one of only four Palladian bridges of its kind in the world.
A medieval nunnery turned into a country house, where William Henry Fox Talbot made the earliest surviving photographic negative in 1835, of an oriel…
A spectacular Victorian Gothic Revival house, with towers, turrets and a private chapel, built for the Gibbs family, who made a fortune from guano.
The largest stone circle in Britain, so big that part of the village of Avebury sits inside it.
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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