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 house was hardly changed for over a century and is packed with the family's possessions.
The kitchen garden, orangery and woodland walks are worth the time. It's an easy trip from Bristol.
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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…
One of the world's most famous landscape gardens, laid out in the 18th century around a lake by the banker Henry Hoare.
A glittering Elizabethan mansion of golden Ham Hill stone, built in the 1590s with great walls of glass.
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