Castles & Heritage Sites in Somerset
Castles & Heritage Sites across Somerset: 18 places to visit.
Barrington Court
National Trust garden rooms, orchards and Strode House
Bath Abbey
Working abbey church with fan vaulting and tower tours
Brean Down
National Trust headland with a Victorian fort
Clevedon Pier
Grade I listed Victorian pier on the Severn Estuary
Dunster Castle
National Trust castle, gardens and watermill
Farleigh Hungerford Castle
English Heritage ruin with a painted chapel
Glastonbury Abbey
36 acres of abbey grounds, run by a charity
Glastonbury Tor
National Trust hill with a 15th-century tower
Hestercombe
Three centuries of garden design near Taunton
Montacute House
Elizabethan ham stone house, ground floor and garden open
No. 1 Royal Crescent
Georgian townhouse museum, furnished as in 1776-1796
Pulteney Bridge
Robert Adam's shop-lined bridge over the Avon
Roman Baths
Roman bathing complex six metres below Bath's streets
Shepton Mallet Prison
Walk the wings of a former prison
Tarr Steps
17-span clapper bridge over the River Barle
The Bishop's Palace
Medieval palace, moat and 14 acres of gardens
Tyntesfield
Gothic Revival mansion and estate near Wraxall
Wells Cathedral
Gothic cathedral with medieval scissor arches