TOURIST ATTRACTIONS |
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| Bath Bus Company Open top bus tours of the city leave from Bog Island, opposite Parade Gardens but can be caught at several stops round town. |
Tel: 01225 330444 www.bathbuscompany.com |
| The Mayors Corps of Honorary Guides give free walking tours of the city starting in Abbey Churchyard |
Tel: 01225 477411 www.thecityofbath.co.uk |
| Thermae Bath Spa Bath Street Bath BA1 1SJ Britain's only natural thermal waters; a day spa for bathing and taking numerous treatments to soothe body & mind. |
Tel: 01225 331234 www.thermaebathspa.com |
| Bath Aqua Glass 105-107 Walcot Street Bath BA1 5BW Glass blowing demonstrations of Bath aqua glass. |
Tel: 01225 311183 www.bathaquaglass.com |
| Radstock Museum Waterloo Road Radstock BA3 3EP Very interesting museum celebrating the life of a typical Somerset coalminer. |
Tel: 01761 437722 www.radstockmuseum.co.uk |
| Corsham Court Corsham, Wilts. SN13 0BZ A privately owned house with spectacular art collection. |
Tel: 01249 701610 www.corsham-court.co.uk |
| Longleat House Nr. Warminster BA12 7NN Spectacular English country house dating from C16; surrounding land is a safari park with all sorts of exotic animals. |
Tel: 01985 844400 www.longleat.co.uk |
| Brokerswood Country Park Westbury, Wilts. BA13 4EH A country park in 80 acres of ancient natural British woodland, adventrue playgrounds, trails and narrow gauge railway. |
Tel: 01373 822238 www.brokerswood.co.uk |
| Cheddar Caves & Gorge Cheddar, Somerset BS27 3QF Cathedral-like caves a million years old; Cheddar-man is Britain's oldest complete skeleton. |
Tel: 01934 742343 www.cheddarcaves.co.uk |
| Wookey Hole Caves Wells, Somerset BA5 1BB Spectacular underground caverns inhabited 50,000 years ago. |
Tel: 01749 672243 www.wookey.co.uk |
| Bowood House & Gardens Derry Hill Calne, Wilts. SN11 0LZ A magnificent stately home designed by Robert Adam in C18, surrounded by interesting gardens with adventure playground. |
Tel: 01249 812102 www.bowood-house.co.uk |
| The Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum Downside Stockley Lane Calne, Wilts SN11 0NF A museum of mainly cars, but also motorcycles lorries, mopeds & pushbikes. |
Tel: 01249 813119 www.atwellwilson.org.uk |
| Edward Jenner Museum Church Lane Berkeley, Glos. GL13 9BN Mseum dedicated to the work of the man who taught us how to use vaccines to fight diseases. |
Tel: 01453 810631 www.jennermuseum.com |
| Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Glos. GL13 9BQ Castle lived in by same family for 900 years. Edward II murdered here; Elizabeth I played bowls and hunted here; incredible kitchens. |
Tel: 01453 810332 www.berkeley-castle.com |
| Cotswold Wild Life Park Burford, Oxon. Home to varied collection of animals in 160 acres of parkland round a listed Victorian manor house. |
Tel: 01993 823006 www.costswoldwildlifepark.co.uk |