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The Bishop's Palace

The Bishop’s Palace and Gardens in Wells has been home to the Bishops of Bath and Wells for over 800 years and this stunning medieval palace is now open for all to enjoy. It’s a great family day out in Somerset with a full programme of year-round events, free guided walks, open-air music and theatre, garden workshops and more and a slice of cake with afternoon tea at the ever-popular Bishop’s Table café is always welcome!


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Somerset Amazing Attractions and so much more!

Top Attractions in Somerset · 1. The Roman Baths · 2. Bath Abbey · 3. Wells Cathedral · 4. Pulteney Bridge · 5. Glastonbury Tor · 6. Cheddar Gorge & Caves · 7. Royal Crescent 8. Wookey Hole 9. Haynes Motor Museum 10. Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm Museum 11. Montacute House 12. Museum of Somerset and more 

Somerset has some of the largest curated collections in the UK. These range from cars exhibited at Hayes International Motor Museum at Sparkford to Naval Aircraft at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton. At the other end of the scale, we have a museum dedicated to the bricks and tiles for which Bridgwater was once famous and the tiny King John’s Hunting Lodge which is a Tudor house in Axbridge crammed with local artefacts. Appropriately, there is a Boat Museum in the old port of Watchet; a Willows and Wetlands Centre on the Levels; a Fashion Museum in Bath; a Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury and The Somerset Museum in the County town, Taunton. What might be more surprising is that that there is a museum about coal mining in Radstock, one about flight in Chard and one about America in Bath – you will have to visit them to find out why!
Collections can be out of door as well as under a roof and Somerset has numerous fine gardens open to the public, some of which have collections of rare plants such as The Walled Garden of Cannington. There are also collections of rare animals at the South-West’s largest zoo, Noah’s Ark at Wraxall.
 

Cheddar Gorge & Caves
Cheddar Gorge & Caves

Cheddar Gorge & Caves boasts extraordinary subterranean show caves, awe-inspiring cliffs and holds many fascinating secrets about our prehistoric ancestors.

Shepton Mallet Prison
Shepton Mallet Prison

Built in 1610 following on Act introduced by King James I, which stated that all counties had to have their own ‘House of Correction’; Shepton Mallet was the oldest working prison in the United Kingdom...

East Lambrook Manor Gardens
East Lambrook Manor Gardens

The quintessential English cottage garden created by the celebrated 20th-century plantswoman and gardening writer Margery Fish and made famous through her many books. It is a unique garden of great beauty and charm with noted collections of snowdrops, hellebores and geraniums and an excellent specialist plant nursery, café and gallery.

The Bristol Hippodrome
The Bristol Hippodrome

The Bristol Hippodrome is one of the country's top, family-friendly provincial theatres, which proudly continues to stage major West End and Broadway productions.

The Jane Austen Centre
The Jane Austen Centre

The Jane Austen Centre is in the heart of the Georgian city of Bath, between the architectural attractions of Queen Square and the Circus, and just a short stroll from Bath Abbey, the Assembly Rooms and the Roman Baths. Come and meet their costumed ‘character’ guides, and enjoy being shown Bath’s fascinating history and its associations with Jane Austen and her family.

Summer Lates at Hestercombe
Summer Lates at Hestercombe

Hestercombe's beautiful summer gardens will be open until 8pm on Wednesday evenings throughout June, July, August and September

Wookey Hole Caves & Attractions
Wookey Hole Caves & Attractions

Wookey Hole is a magical place of caves, legends, and adventure for all ages. It’s an experience millions of years in the making with plenty to do inside and out. Enjoy vintage penny arcades, museums, adventure golf, and soft play zones, and of course the famous, beautiful caves.

Dunster Working Watermill, National Trust
Dunster Working Watermill, National Trust

On site of a mill mentioned in the Domesday Survey of c1086. The present mill dates from 18thC and was restored to working order.

Barrington Court, National Trust
Barrington Court, National Trust

Barrington Court, located in the stunning south Somerset countryside, is a charming Tudor manor house complimented beautifully with Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens, apple orchards and a working kitchen garden.

The Garden at Dunster Castle, National Trust
The Garden at Dunster Castle, National Trust

The result of 100s of years of planning, building and restoration a walk around the gardens at Dunster Castle takes you around the world and though four different microclimates.


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