Sightseeing + Tours
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| Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey Lacock, Chippenham, SN15 2LG |  |
The French and British may disagree over exactly when photography was invented: Joseph Nicéphore Niepce (1765-1833) executed the first recognisable image formed by a camera obscura, a view from a window near Chalo... more
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| Westwood Manor Off the B3109, Westwood Village, Bradford on Avon, BA15 2AF | |
This manor goes back to Saxon times, and at the time of Domesday it was in the possession of the Bishop of Winchester. There is a fragment left of the house from about 1400,...
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| Great Chalfield Manor Off B3107,, via Broughton Gifford Common, Melksham, SN12 8NH | |
Chalfield was acquired in 1467 by Thomas Trompnell, who rebuilt the house around a courtyard. The south range has since disappeared, but the north front has probably altered very little. One enters through the original f... more
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| Stourhead House [National Trust] Stourton, Warminster, BA12 6QD | |
We just about crossed Stourhead off our list, but decided to make it happen and we are so glad we did. We had taken the five day Celebrity Constellation cruise from Southampton and returned there on April 30th. I had ori... more
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| Bath Boating Station Forester Rd, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6QE | |
Traditional Thames skiffs and punts for lazy days on the river, or by prior arrangement you can book customised hours. I hired one overnight once and went for a midnight row up the river and watched the sun come up in be... more
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| Farleigh Hungerford Castle Farleigh Hungerford, 31/2 miles West off Trowbridge on A366, Bath, BA2 7RS | |
Farleigh Hungerford Castle began life as a manor house built by the Montfort family. In 1369-70 it was sold to Sir Thomas Hungerford, first Speaker of the House of Commons. He converted the property into a square castle ... more
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| Circus North of Queen Square, Bath, BA1 1EE | |
Yes, I'm here. Ah, the circus. Can't beat a few elephants lumbering around beneath a trapeze. With that in your mind, you'll be disappointed. This Circus is about history. Buildings where famous people lived abound here ... more
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| Henrietta Park Henrietta Road, Bath, BA2 1EE |  |
This peaceful park lies in Bathwick, across the river from the city centre. Opened to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, it has an interesting variety of mature trees. Behind attractive wrought-iron... more
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| Pulteney Princess 6 Henry Street, Palladian Pulteney Bridge,, Bath, BA1 1EE | |
As there's no riverside pub in Bath many people catch the Pulteney Princess from the weir (below Pulteney Bridge) for a quick trip up to Bathampton where there's a choice of three pubs, a toll bridge, water wheel, weir a... more
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| Courts Garden Holt, Bradford on Avon, BA14 6RR | |
The Courts Garden is a comfortable, hard-working 1920s garden of different character areas in the manner of Hidcote. Good use of colour in both shrub planting and in the borders, many of which are closely colour-coordina... more
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