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The Roman Baths are over 2,000 years old and one of the best preserved Roman sites north of the Alps. A hot water spring feeds the Baths with mineral water at a temperature of 46 degrees C. Having no ... |
| York Minster is Northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedral, and a place of worship for over 1,000 years. The present York Minster dates from the 13th century. In the North Transept the stained glass ... |
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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 ... |
| As you approach Chirk Castle, you can't help but be impressed by the solidity of this structure; the turrets taper gently outwards towards the base to a diameter that would encircle the average detached ... |
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Powis Castle is a magnificent building of mellow sandstone, standing on a rock overlooking superb terraced gardens. Built around 1200 by Welsh Princes, generations of Herberts and Clives have subsequently ... |
| Croft Castle is more a fortified house than a castle. It sits on the hillside below Croft Ambrey hill fort looking out towards the River Lugg over beautiful open countryside. The interior of Croft ... |
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Berrington Hall was designed by Henry Holland and built in the late 18th century. It stands in grounds lanscaped by Capability Brown. It is constructed of large sandstone blocks which give it a rather ... |
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Tatton Park is a large estate and includes many attractions, entrance to some of which are not covered by National Trust membership due to the finance, maintenance and administration of the park by Cheshire ... |
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Coughton Court is a wonderful Tudor house and has been the home of the Throckmorton family since 1409. It has important links with the Gunpowder plot and Civil War. The architecture of Coughton Court ... |
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Stokesay Castle is a very picturesque 13th century fortified manor house situated in wonderful countryside. It's the most well preserved building of its type in England and features architectural styles ... |
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Witley Court was once a great house but is now just a spectacular, but rather sad, ruin. It's sad because the building has been reduced to this condition through years of neglect, initiated by the then ... |
| Wenlock Priory has sufficient remaining structure to convey some feeling of what this 13th century Cluniac Monastery must have looked like when a place of worship. An attractive garden features topiary ... |
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Bury Ditches is a well preserved bronze age hill fort located in pine forests set amid beautiful and very peaceful Shropshire countryside. In the village of Clunton, Bury Ditches is signposted off ... |
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Dinmore Manor is no longer open to the public. Dinmore Manor is located in beautiful Herefordshire countryside at an elevation of around 500ft above sea level, which affords spectacular views extending ... |
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Little Moreton Hall is one of the finest examples of a timber framed moated manor house in Britain. Parts of the building date back 600 years, yet most of the oak frame is original, although its shape ... |
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Baddesley Clinton is a moated manor house of great character dating from the 15th Century. The house is mainly stone built with red brickwork on the South Range. A gap in the north side reveals the half-timbered ... |
| Mediaeval castle in Wensleydale, built in 1399 by Lord Scrope, chancellor to Richard II. Links with Mary Queen of Scots. Mediaeval garden . Living History weekends - ring 01969 623981 for details. |
| 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 ... |