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The softly glowing Ham stone of which most of the town properties are built, lends warmth and atmosphere to what is already a unique and attractive place...
A long, winding lane, flanked by grassy banks covered in fern and wild flowers, leads to the picture postcard village of Melbury Osmond..
A small attractive Market Town in Dorset...
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The interior of Martock's Ham-stone church is perhaps the grandest in all Somerset, the startling effect of the golden stone against the most lavishly decorated of the county's great tie-beam roofs is simply overwhelming...
Stourton is noted for the church dedicated to St. Peter where you can see many memorials to the famous Hoare banking family and for the house which was the families ancestral home...
Famous for its huge chalk 'rude' giant, Cerne Abbas is a lovely ancient village in Dorset...
A picturesque village in the county of Dorset..
This is a particularly scenic village lying deep in a chalk-stream valley between open downs. Every approach to it is beautiful, whether crossing the hills from Cerne Abbas or Maiden Newton, or coming up the waters of the River Cerne between meadows flooded with spring lambs and ponies...
Shaftsbury is Dorset's only hill-top town, with its long history and good views it is particularly attractive to tourists...
This old town cradled at the heart of the Somerset Levels, sits bounded by the soft rolling Somerset countryside...
Milton Abbas is a superb thatched village which has the distinction of being the first planned village of its kind in England...
This little town now enjoys world renown for its annual music festival which attracts thousands of visitors from all over the globe. None-the-less, this still remains very much a.....
East Knoyle is situated where the Wiltshire countryside blends into Dorset. The landscape is quite stunning, it has a dramatically changing face of sweeping pastures and hillsides...
The town was initially the town of Brian de Lisle, a Baron at the court of King John...
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Wells, situated at the foot of the picturesque mendip hills, is most certainly one of England's most delightful cathedral cities...
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Athelhampton lies close to the little River Piddle which almost entirely encircles Athelhampton House which was built in the 15th-century by Sir William Martyn who was granted the lands and a license to build upon them by King Henry VII in the year 1483...
Many fascinating tales remain from the time when Sherborne Castle was lived in by Sir Walter Raleigh, a favourite of Elizabeth I......
Without doubt this magnificent Abbey built centuries ago of creamy Ham stone ranks amongst the finest Abbey churches anywhere in.....
The Fleet Air Arm Museum houses Europe's largest Naval aviation collection. Go on-board Concorde and be transported by a.....
Intimate manor house with Arts & Crafts-style garden. Tudor great hall and 14th-century chapel, this was home to medieval.....
This is one of the most glittering of all the great Elizabethan mansions in England. It is built of glowing honey-coloured Ham.....
This magnificent figure cut into the turf of a chalk hillside is best viewed from the north of the village. He is known as "The.....
Designed by Henry Hoare II, Stourhead is one of England's most picturesque landscape gardens with classic temples and palladian.....
Swirling mists rise over the Somerset Levels, where approaching the town of Glastonbury, suddenly above the mist you catch a.....
There are many associations with Chalice Well covering countless centuries; it is a timeless and sacred place, full of legend,.....
This is believed to be the site of the oldest Christian Church in the world, for centuries it has been the focus of Christian.....
Barrington Court is an attractive 16th-century house built in the engaging "E" shaped style of the period in mellow Ham Hill.....
Wells Cathedral is the most perfect example of an ecclesiastical city from the days when the order of life was God, King and.....
A tradition exists that Nunney Castle's sole pig was subject to daily torture when the castle came under siege in 1645 during the.....
On entering the great grounds of Longleat House through the entrance known as "Heaven's Gate" visitors are immediately struck by.....
The Bishop's Palace in the enchanting tiny cathedral city of Wells where there is a predominance of beautiful buildings, is.....
Athelhampton House is a fine example of a 15th Century house nestling in deepest Dorset...
Home of poet and novelist Thomas Hardy until the age of 34. Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were.....
The Roman Town House was a discovery of the 1930's. From excavations beneath the ground came a rich feast of Roman history that.....
This exciting keep is the home of the Military Museum of Devon and Dorset. Here visitors with a keen interest in all things.....
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