Historic BuildingsBradford On Avon

Bath Abbey is a parish church which was once the great church of a monastery. A cathedral is the principal church of a diocese, the area of a bishop's authority. The Abbey Church is classified as one of the Greater Churches group. Begun in 1499, it is…
Distance: 4.8 miles away

The Royal Crescent was built to the designs of John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1774. It is justly considered one of the finest achievements of urban 18th century architecture and represents the highest point of palladian architecture in Bath. The houses of the Royal Crescent were…
Distance: 5.4 miles away

Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo‐classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset, England.Standing 120 feet 37 m high, the tower was completed in 1827 for local resident William Beckford to a design by Henry Goodridge. Beckford, who wished…
Distance: 5.1 miles away

The house was altered in the early 17th century and has late Gothic and Jacobean windows and fine plasterwork. There is a modern topiary garden.…
Distance: 1.3 miles away

Farleigh Hungerford was begun in the 1370s by Sir Thomas Hungerford, Speaker of the Commons, and extended in the 15th century by his son Walter, Lord Hungerford, Agincourt veteran and distinguished medieval statesman. The remains of their fortress, built in the most up‐to‐date and fashionable quadrangular style of…
Distance: 2.4 miles away

Nunney Castle is a castle in Nunney, Somerset, England.Nunney Castle Nunney Castle showing collapsed wall Nunney Castle showing above the trees and villageIt is a small, French‐style castle surrounded by a deep moat, built for Sir John Delamare in 1373. A veteran of the Hundred Years' War, Sir…
Distance: 10.8 miles away

Avon Valley Country Park ‐ Amusement Park in Bristol, . Contact venue on telephone number 01179864929 for opening times, entrance costs, and attractionsrides available at this park.…
Distance: 10.3 miles away

Spectacular late 17th‐century mansion, garden and deer park.Dyrham Park is a beautiful baroque country house set in 110 hectares 274 acres of garden and parkland, designed by Talman for William Blathwayt, Secretary at War during the reign of William III. As a consquence of Blathwayt's royal connections and…
Distance: 10.4 miles away

Nestling within the picturesque grounds of the Lackham Countryside is the Rural Life Museum. This interesting collection of machinery and artifacts of a bygone rural life are situated in a thatched barn and granary buildings.Exhibits display details of the way of life of local farming families going back…
Distance: 8.6 miles away

Created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur Ralph Allen, with advice from 'Capability' Brown and the poet Alexander Pope, the garden is set in a sweeping valley with magnificent views of the city of Bath. There are many interesting features, including the majestic Palladian bridge, one of…
Distance: 3.8 miles away