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Beckford’s Tower is a folly situated on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath in Somerset. Built in 1827 for Bath resident, William Beckford, the tower stands at 37m high. Now owned by the Bath Preservation Trust, it is a grade I listed building. Within the tower there is a museum displaying various artefacts, furniture and paintings from Beckford’s collection. Visitors can Read more…
The International Helicopter Museum features a collection of more than 80 military and civilian helicopters housed on a former RAF base in Weston super Mare in Somerset. Established in 1958 by Elfan ap Rees, the collection has been added to over the last 50 years and now contains helicopters from all over the world, some on display are even rare Read more…
Combe Sydenham is a 15th century manor house and Grade I listed building. Combe Sydenham Hall was the home of the Sydenham family from the fourteen hundreds to the mid 18th century. In 1585, Francis Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, who was the High Sheriff of Somerset. Drake and Elizabeth Sydenham were to be Read more…
The Fleet Air Arm Museum comprises four large halls. Each hall has ground floor and upper levels telling the stories of naval aviation from the first manned kites towed behind naval vessels, to helium filled airships, seaplanes, bi planes and the carrier borne aircraft of WW2 and modern Sea Harriers and helicopters. Read more…
Pulteney Bridge is an iconic landmark in central Bath which crosses the River Avon. Designed in a Palladian style by Robert Adams for William Pulteney and opened in 1774, it is one of only 4 bridges in the world which has shops on it. Due to its Georgian architecture and romantic setting, the bridge is much photographed and often seen Read more…
The Museum of Bath at Work tells the story of the commercial development of Bath over the last 2,000 years and is located at Camden Works on Julian Road in Bath, Somerset. First opened in 1978, visitors can stroll displays over four floors, with the main exhibit being that of a reconstruction of an engineering and mineral water making operation Read more…
Coleridge Cottage, home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge displaying of the poet’s personal mementoes. 17th-century Coleridge Cottage is managed by the National Trust. Read more…
Prior Park, 18th-century landscape garden with an Ornamental Palladian bridge, one of only four in the world. Designed with advice from poet Alexander Pope and ‘Capability’ Brown. Read more…
Montacute House is an Elizabethan (1588-1601) Ham-stone house noted for its tapestries, 16th/17th Century furniture, and Tudor and Jacobean portraits. The house was one of the first to be buit without fortifications but purely as a house to show off. The house stands in 120ha (300 acres) of gardens and park. Read more…
The birthplace of Robert Blake (1598-1657), General-at-Sea, the Admiral Blake Museum houses a fascinating collection of local history and archaeology. There is plenty to see, from life in the earliest settlements to the colourful excitement of Bridgwater Carnival. Opening Times 10.00am – 4.00pm Tuesday – Saturday, from Easter to November. Read more…
Dyrham Park, late 17th-century mansion, garden and deer park. Managed by the National Trust. Read more…
Stanton Drew has three stone circles and the largest is the second largest stone circle in Britain, after Avebury. Great Circle is the largest stone circle at 113m in diameter. Probably originally consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch (approximately 135m outer diameter – now filled in) of a henge. The North Read more…
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