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Lacock Abbey was founded in 1232 and was a nunnery for Augustinian canonesses until 1539 when Henry VIII suppressed the nunnery and sold the Abbey to William Sharington. Sharington converted the Abbey ... |
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Salisbury Cathedral is a magnificent Gothic style building dating from 1220 and surrounded by many buildings of great character in The Close. The Cathedral is constructed in limestone from a local quarry, ... |
| Stonehenge is the remnants of a series of monuments in this area, erected between around 3000 to 1600BC, with each circular structure being aligned with the sunrise at midsummer solstice. Debate continues ... |
| William Henry Fox Talbot is best known for inventing the positive/negative process used in photography, but he was also a mathematician, physicist, philologist, and transcriber of Syrian and Chaldean ... |
| Avebury Manor dates mainly from the early 16th century with Queen Anne alterations and subsequent Edwardian restoration. The house has monastic origins and an attractive garden divided into 'rooms' ... |
| Stourhead is one of the country's best examples of the English landscape style garden, created by Henry Hoare II between 1741-80. The Stourhead pleasure gardens were conceived as a series of spectacular ... |
| This Grade I Italian-style garden is famous for its tranquil beauty and was the home of architect and landscape gardener, Harold A. Peto from 1899 to 1933. This unique and romantic hillside garden ... |
| Avebury Stone Circle is the largest henge in Britain at almost 330 metres diameter and dates from around 1800 BC. Surrounding the stone circle is a ditch and outer bank of chalk. The ditch is about ... |