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Bath Abbey, Somerset

Bath Abbey, Somerset

Bath Abbey is a beautiful building. The building is sited on the remains of a Norman Cathedral which itself replaced an 8th.....

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Bath Assembly Rooms, Somerset

Bath Assembly Rooms, Somerset

Bath's magnificent 18th century Assembly Rooms were opened in 1771. Known as the New or Upper Rooms they were designed by John.....

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Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset

Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset

The Bishop's Palace in the enchanting tiny cathedral city of Wells where there is a predominance of beautiful buildings, is.....

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Buildings of Bath Museum, Somerset

Buildings of Bath Museum, Somerset

"The Best Treat in Bath" - The Daily Telegraph Discover how the City of Bath was transformed from a small provincial spa town.....

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Clevedon Court, Somerset

Clevedon Court, Somerset

The beautiful manor house known as Cleveden Court was built in the 14th century. It retains many original features including an.....

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Coleridge Cottage, Somerset

Coleridge Cottage, Somerset

Home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge...

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Dunster Watermill, Somerset

Fully restored 18th century working watermill...

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Georgian House, Bristol, Somerset

Centuries ago the great docks of Bristol drew many wealthy merchants to the town, fortunes were founded by these early.....

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Glastonbury Tor, Somerset

Glastonbury Tor, Somerset

Swirling mists rise over the Somerset Levels, where approaching the town of Glastonbury, suddenly above the mist you catch a.....

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Halsway Manor, Somerset

Halsway Manor, Somerset

Halsway Manor is unique residential Folk Centre set on the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills in West Somerset. Set in.....

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Jane Austen Centre, Somerset

Jane Austen Centre, Somerset

Jane Austen, the famous novelist is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous residents. She paid two long.....

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King John's Hunting Lodge, Somerset

King John's Hunting Lodge, Somerset

Immaculately restored early Tudor merchant's house dating from 1500...

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Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset

Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset

Intimate manor house with Arts & Crafts-style garden. Tudor great hall and 14th-century chapel, this was home to medieval.....

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Montacute House, Somerset

Montacute House, Somerset

This is one of the most glittering of all the great Elizabethan mansions in England. It is built of glowing honey-coloured Ham.....

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Priest's House, Somerset

Late medieval hall house in a picturesque village, which was built by Muchelney Abbey in 1308 for the parish priest...

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Red Lodge, Bristol, Somerset

This magnificent house in Park Row, Bristol was built in 1570 by merchant John Yonge; the upper parts were rebuilt in the 18th.....

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Roman Baths, Somerset

Roman Baths, Somerset

Bath has some of the best preserved Roman remains in Britain, with the most spectacular of these being the Roman Baths - A Roman.....

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Stembridge Tower Mill, Somerset

Stembridge Tower Mill, Somerset

The last remaining thatched windmill in England, dating from 1822 and in use until 1910...

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Stoke-sub-Hamdon Priory, Somerset

Stoke-sub-Hamdon Priory, Somerset

14th/15th-century farm buildings, formerly a priests' residence...

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Wells Cathedral, Somerset

Wells Cathedral, Somerset

Wells Cathedral is the most perfect example of an ecclesiastical city from the days when the order of life was God, King and.....

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