This is a former wool and corn town with a fascinating history stretching back to Saxon times. It sits comfortably beneath the chalk downland of the Salisbury Plain at the head of the beautiful Wyle Valley...
Stourton is noted for the church dedicated to St. Peter where you can see many memorials to the famous Hoare banking family and for the house which was the families ancestral home...
East Knoyle is situated where the Wiltshire countryside blends into Dorset. The landscape is quite stunning, it has a dramatically changing face of sweeping pastures and hillsides...
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Trowbridge is a historic town crammed with attractive stone buildings. It originated as a settlement along the Biss and flourished from the wool and weaving trades and from these periods there remain many magnificent merchant houses...
Tisbury is a picturesque village set amidst delightful Wiltshire countryside where you will find friendly villagers and a calm, peaceful atmosphere...
Shaftsbury is Dorset's only hill-top town, with its long history and good views it is particularly attractive to tourists...
Beautiful old town with a rich mixture of mellow Bath stone properties to be seen along ancient winding streets...
Fovant is most noted for its dramatic hillside where huge regimental badges are carved into the chalk downs and clearly seen from the road...
Bath is an elegant city famous for its beautiful Georgian architecture and its Roman attractions from which it got it's name. The traveller James Boswell who visited the city.....
Wells, situated at the foot of the picturesque mendip hills, is most certainly one of England's most delightful cathedral cities...
This is a delightful small village situated in the picturesque Blackmore Vale where the Dorset and Somerset boundary meets...
A small attractive Market Town in Dorset...
Devizes is a small market town situate on the edge of the great expanse of Salisbury Plain...
It is a pleasant resort village made famous by the glittering limestone cavern known as "Wookey Hole" which comprises of several dramatic chambers...
Gatherings of graceful medieval houses line the streets of Lacock..
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The softly glowing Ham stone of which most of the town properties are built, lends warmth and atmosphere to what is already a unique and attractive place...
Wilton was once a county town, it has also been a bishopric, a Royal residence and is one of the oldest boroughs in England...
On entering the great grounds of Longleat House through the entrance known as "Heaven's Gate" visitors are immediately struck by.....
Designed by Henry Hoare II, Stourhead is one of England's most picturesque landscape gardens with classic temples and palladian.....
A tradition exists that Nunney Castle's sole pig was subject to daily torture when the castle came under siege in 1645 during the.....
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In 1383, the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Hungerford had to be pardoned for building Farleigh Hungerford.....
Capability Brown had a hand in establishing the stunning landscape of Prior Park. His services, together with the advice of.....
Bath Abbey is a beautiful building. The building is sited on the remains of a Norman Cathedral which itself replaced an 8th.....
A one minute stroll from Bath Abbey you will find the oldest house in Bath - Sally Lunn's. Sally Lunn was a young french refugee.....
Bath is an important Spa and cultural centre, one of its most famous buildings is the elegant Pump Room of the baths built.....
Bath has some of the best preserved Roman remains in Britain, with the most spectacular of these being the Roman Baths - A Roman.....
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Jane Austen, the famous novelist is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous residents. She paid two long.....
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"The Best Treat in Bath" - The Daily Telegraph Discover how the City of Bath was transformed from a small provincial spa town.....
Bath museum of costume is a great experience, especially for anyone interested in either history or fashion. The collection.....
Bath's magnificent 18th century Assembly Rooms were opened in 1771. Known as the New or Upper Rooms they were designed by John.....
Wells Cathedral is the most perfect example of an ecclesiastical city from the days when the order of life was God, King and.....
The Bishop's Palace in the enchanting tiny cathedral city of Wells where there is a predominance of beautiful buildings, is.....
Designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge in 1825 for William Beckford, one of the nation's most accomplished and interesting characters.....
These dazzling show caves offer a glittering experience in floodlit chambers deep underground. This is the spiritual home of the.....
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