Montacute, Somerset
Montacute in Somerset, is a village of exceptional interest. The buildings are almost entirely of golden coloured Ham Hill stone, including Montacute House, one of the finest Elizabethan houses in Britain. Th...
Places to visit in Somerset
Ham Hill Country Park, Somerset
Ham Hill, west of Yeovil in Somerset, is a hill from which the famous honey-coloured building stone has been quarried for over 2,000 years. It has been used to build Roman villas, Saxon and Medieval churches, s...
Wellow, Somerset
Wellow is a small village of about 500 inhabitants, four miles south of the City of Bath. It has many warm, golden coloured cottages and is situated in a conservation area. The Manor House in the High Street,...
Norton St. Philip, Somerset
Norton St. Philip is a small attractive village, only six miles from the City of Bath. From about 1230 until the dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539, it belonged to the Carthusian monks at Hin...
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, near Bath, is on a hillside above the Somerset bank of the River Frome, the other bank being in Wiltshire. Originally a manor house, it was sold to Thomas Hungerford in 1369, who pr...
Bath, Somerset
Bath in Somerset, on the edge of the Cotswolds, is a World Heritage City. It attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year to see the fine Georgian buildings, beautiful parks, riverside walk...
Hinton St. George, Somerset
Hinton St. George is probably the most perfect of the villages between Yeovil and Ilminster, constructed with the attractive golden Ham Hill stone. The stone was quarried only five miles away, on Hamdon Hill. ...
Allerford, Exmoor, Somerset
Allerford Village
Allerford countryside
Packhorse Bridge
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Oare, Exmoor (Lorna Doone Country), Somerset
Oare is a remote village, deep in an Exmoor Valley, two miles from the coast, which can only be reached by winding lanes. Few people would have ever heard of Oare, had it not been chosen as the dramatic locatio...
Glastonbury, Somerset
Glastonbury is a thriving market town in Somerset, which has been a place of pilgrimage for thousands of years. The town is clustered around the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, England's largest abbey, set in 36 ac...
