The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum houses an internationally significant museum collection of exceptional quality and variety, changing displays of our Designated Arts and Crafts Movement collection and fine art collections. The museum is home to The Open Archive, which houses our fascinating archives relating to Antarctic explorer Edward A. Wilson, Cheltenham’s history and the Emery Walker Library. Read more…
The Forest of Dean covers 35 square miles between the rivers Severn and Wye. The forest has thick coniferous and deciduous woods and rolling hills. In Roman times this was a major hunting area and in Tudor times the Oak was used for shipbuilding. Throughout the Forest you are welcome to explore – to walk and cycle the many miles Read more…
Westbury Court Garden was created between 1696 and 1705, and is the only restored Dutch style water garden in the country. A visit will include exploring the canals, fine hedges and working 17th-century vegetable plots and discover many old varieties of fruit trees. Read more…
Little Fleece Bookshop, a traditional 17th-century building Cotswold house (originally part of a former inn) in the beautiful Cotswold village of Painswick. Read more…
The Regal is a Wetherspoon pub in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm. Read more…
The heated pool is 18m long, by 6m wide and the depths go from 1m to just over 2m. There is a retractable enclosure which is closed in colder weather, and drawn back for open air swimming when the weather is fine. Read more…
Woodchester Park, a secluded wooded valley with a ‘lost garden’. Chain of five lakes thread through this delightful 18th and 19th-century landscape park with waymarked trails. Read more…
Dominican ‘black friars’ friary, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and the fine scissor-braced dormitory roof. Read more…
All that survives of Kingswood Abbey today is the 16th century Abbey gatehouse. The abbey was founded in the year 1169 by William of Berkeley and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern. Read more…
St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle, built between 1075 and 1129 and is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance. St Briavels Castle is now a Grade I isted building and a Youth Hostel, open to the public. Read more…
