The Fox Talbot Museum is owned and managed by the National Trust and commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of...

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...

Chippenham Museum is situated in the centre of the town in Wiltshire and is a fascinating place to learn more about the towns history and...

Yelde Hall is an old form of Guildhall. Although it is believed that there has been a place of administration at the heart of...

Here’s a pleasant spot to watch the river flow by. You would scarcely credit that the horror of bull baiting once took place in this...

Tucked away from the busy street is this café housed in a converted 17th-century weaver’s cottage. It specialises in fairtrade fare. Tables are squeezed...

The only timber-framed houses in this stone-built town are in the Shambles. They date from Tudor times. The Shambles was once a market place...

A few steps away from the town bridge is the library and museum. The pride of the museum is a faithful reconstruction of the Christopher...

This house proudly proclaims its age. On one of the gables is the date 1675. It still has its original stone-mullioned windows. It is remarkable...

You might say this is a church built on cloth. The present church was begun in the Norman period. But it was almost completely remodelled...

Mr Salvat has recreated the atmosphere of early coffee-houses. A waiter in knee-breeches jots down your order with a quill pen as you sit in...

The Granary was originally part of Shaftesbury Abbey’s grange at Barton Farm. The medieval building has a fine open timber roof. Nearby are former cow...

One and 1 ½ hour boat trips along the Kennet & Avon Canal from March to October, Wednesday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s. Cream tea trips, longer...

The American Museum in Britain shows, largely in a series of Period Rooms, the development of American Decorative arts from its European roots to purely...

This museum was founded in 1965 in memory of John Judkyn, a prominent figure in work to bring closer together the people of Britain and...

Magnificent family house of the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne containing remarkable collections of heirlooms and works of art, the eighteenth century Robert Adam house...

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...

Most of this collection is made up from cars, although there are some lorries, motorcycles, pushbikes and mopeds that are in the museum. There...

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...

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...