Jack Russell is probably first and foremost known as a famous England cricket player who kept wicket with style for his nation for a great...

This house was built for the pleasure of Henry VIII when he visited this area of the world. Designed by Nicholas Poyntz, one of...

An outstanding example of a late 17th Century mansion house, Dryham stands amidst a lush deer park and gardens close to Bath. Internally, the...

The National Trust acquired this ruined abbey in 1949. It is thought that the earliest part of the abbey was constructed in the 12th...

The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust was established by a small group of workers and enthusiasts in 1981, and on a small patch at the Bristol factory,...

Frenchay Museum is a small but fascinating place of history to visit, charting the growth and development of this suburb of Bristol. Although once...

This museum is located within the 18th Century brass works that belonged to William Champion. The first commercial production of zinc in Europe was...

The Glenside Hospital Museum is filled with interesting artefacts and historical documents that help visitors to understand the history of this hospital, and the way...

Sadly the greatest innovation in commercial flight, Concorde, is a plane that is no longer seen in the skies of Britain or anywhere in the...

This railway is a real experience for the casual user or the train enthusiast. It offers a six mile journey through this beautiful area...

One of the best loved monuments and museums in Bath and the surrounding areas, this interesting old piece of architecture is another reminder of the...

Thornbury Library is an important cultural and social resource for the community, carrying a large selection of educational and entertainment books, audio and video materials....

This community museum has been operating since 1986 and carries an extensive range of local history artefacts and documents. One of the central collections...

Victoria had little love of Bath and never visited it as queen. Still her long reign was celebrated here. The art gallery named after her...

The Castle Combe Museum is made up of many interesting pieces that have been collected from the local region, and put together in order to...

This beautiful country park is one of the finest areas of natural and open land that exists in this area of South Gloucestershire. Well...

The 650-acre Blaise Castle Estate has been a public pleasure-ground since it was bought by Bristol Council. Paths wind along wooded slopes and beside brooks....

These enchanting cottages around a green were built c.1811 for retired employees of John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle House. Each of the nine...

This peaceful park lies in Bathwick, across the river from the city centre. Opened to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, it...

This is the only one of Bath’s Georgian pleasure gardens to survive. When it opened in 1795 it was privately run and visitors paid an...

Bishop Carpenter built a new quadrangle in the 15th century for Westbury’s college (community) of priests. It was like a miniature castle, with a turret...

The grandest of Bath’s many Georgian crescents; the Royal Crescent was built by John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1774. It consists of thirty...

Beckford’s Tower is a 120ft. neo-classical Italianate tower built in 1827 for William Beckford as a retreat which housed part of his art collection....

No. 1 Royal Crescent is a grand townhouse of the late 18th Century with authentic furniture, paintings and carpets. On the ground floor are...

This former Tudor hunting lodge was later transformed into a fashionable home, acquired by the National Trust in 1949. Aloft a forty-foot cliff with...

Bath has long had an image as a city of leisure. So this museum may come as a surprise. Victorian Bath was a hive of...

A unique museum housing a fine collection of objects from all over East Asia, ranging in date from around 5000BC to the present day. The...

The Fashion Museum is one of the finest museums in bath and offers visitors the chance to study and observe the way that fashions have...

In Jane Austen’s time these were known as the Upper Rooms, since there were other assembly rooms in the city centre. The wide-eyed heroine of...

LOT is housed in a 25000 square foot site over three levels, and comprises an artist-led collaborative art project in Bristol. The main exhibition...

Georgian Bath grew at a phenomenal rate. The fashionable spa needed elegant housing for visitors and residents. The Building of Bath Museum explains its development...

The first shot tower in the world was built on Redcliffe Hill by plumber William Watts. In 1782 he invented a way to make perfectly...

Once much of Bristol looked like this - though perhaps not as brightly painted. The seventeenth-century city centre was a mass of tightly-packed timber-framed houses,...

As late Georgian Bristol grew with a burst of squares and crescents, the new districts needed churches. In fact the residents of Brunswick and Portland...

The former Brunswick Congregational Chapel dominates the square. It was designed by William Armstrong in 1834. The huge Ionic columns of the portico hint of...

Leigh Woods is a characteristic British woodland habitat that has changed for many hundreds of years. Situated on the edge of Bristol, the National...

A delightful Georgian town house and garden where astronomer Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. Restored and furnished in the style of the period,...

At last, there is somewhere in Bath for all Jane Austen fans. The Jane Austen Centre is a permanent exhibition with knowledgeable guides featuring displays...

This pub is housed in a former Georgian coaching inn, York House, later the Royal York Hotel. Victoria stayed there as a princess. The notice...

This former station was built in 1868-9 as a stop on the Midland Railway’s Bristol to Birmingham line. The last train ran in 1966. But...