Superb Elizabethan stately home with sumptuous interior.
Safari park and safari boats, as seen on TV’s Animal Park.
Grounds designed by Capability Brown and Repton.
Adventure playground, splash pad, motion simulators, mazes, miniature railway.
Postman Pat village, tea cup rides, soft play area.
Aviary, butterfly garden, bat colony, petting area.
Spectacular caves, home to the famous Witch.
Theme park with 20 life-sized dinosaurs.
The West’s largest indoor attraction includes a cave museum, paper mill, penny arcade, crazy mirrors, pirate ship and teddy bear collection.
Circus and adventure golf.
Harry Potter, Robin of Sherwood and Dr Who filmed here.
One of the largest and finest collections of fashions in the world.
Over 30,000 pieces, including almost 200 dressed mannequins modeling fashions from the past 400 years.
Includes a dress worn by Queen Victoria and a 1700s gold silk Court dress.
Try on replica corsets, crinolines or children’s Victorian clothes.
3 floors of fascinating displays charting Bath’s industries and occupations since Roman times.
Reconstructed Victorian fizzy drinks factory, Bath stone mine and cabinet maker’s workshop.
1914 Horstmann light car and other local inventions.
Working machinery demonstrations, interactive displays, guides, changing exhibitions.
Experience the sights, sounds and smells of life on board the world’s first great ocean liner.
Go under the innovative glass “sea” to view her hull.
Visit the dockyard museum.
Year round fun events and interactive displays.
Multi-award winning attraction offering free unlimited return visits for a year.
Bathe in the UK’s only natural thermal spa, just as the Romans and Celts did.
Choice of over 50 spa treatments and 3 pools.
Open-air rooftop pool with stunning views across Bath and beyond.
Stylish indoor pool and steam rooms.
Intimate open-air pool at a sacred site of the Celts.
Free museum chronicling Trowbridge’s heritage, industries and people.
Weaving demonstrations, teasel gig and other unique exhibits from the town’s woollen cloth industry.
Horse drawn fire pump from at least 200 years ago.
Displays about Trowbridge Castle, breweries, Isaac Pitman (shorthand), World War II evacuees and bygone school days.
Lots of interactive exhibits chronicle 4,000 years of written communication.
View a clay letter from 2000 BC, Egyptian papyrus from 1200 BC and antique post boxes.
Discover the pivotal roles played by Bathonians, including sending the world’s first stamp.
Learn about Victorian mail coaches.
Perforate your own sheet of stamps.
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Spectacular 3 mile long gorge with towering cliffs above and beautiful caves below.
Admire the stalagmites and stalactites in Gough’s and Cox’s Caves.
Discover our ancestors’ way of life at the Museum of Prehistory.
Enjoy the views from the lookout tower and cliff-top walks.
Abseiling, climbing and caving expeditions available.
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Enjoy a steam train ride through the rolling Mendip countryside on this 150 year old track.
Visit the signal box, engine sheds and workshops
“Driver for a fiver” and footplate experience days.
On-board Sunday lunches, strawberry teas, murder mystery evenings.
Miniature railway, Thomas the Tank Engine days and Santa Specials.
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Scenic estate offering the chance to learn about nature and farming.
Museum of Rural Life has thatched farm buildings and exhibits about farming through the ages.
Inspiring horticulture – sensory, bog, wartime kitchen and walled gardens.
Woodland trail with hide, river views and seasonal flowers.
Regular events, including popular lambing weekends.
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Remarkably complete remains of the Roman complex built around Britain’s only hot springs.
Great Bath, Sacred Spring, plunge pools, sauna and hypocaust.
Remains of the Roman temple and its courtyard.
Museum containing gilt-bronze head of goddess Minerva, temple’s pediment with Gorgon’s head and Roman coins.
Costumed characters and audio tours.
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