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Exmouth
A unique sixteen-sided Georgian house with an extraordinary shell gallery, built by two visionary cousins
295 museums
Exmouth
A unique sixteen-sided Georgian house with an extraordinary shell gallery, built by two visionary cousins
Avebury
Exploring Neolithic Britain at the heart of the world's largest stone circle complex
Honiton
Queen Victoria's wedding lace and three centuries of Honiton's finest craft tradition
Torpoint
An early Georgian house of Pentewan stone above the Lynher, still lived in by the family
Barnstaple
An eccentric Regency mansion, a remarkable carriage collection, and 2,700 acres of north Devon countryside
Chepstow
Seventy years of Army apprentices at Beachley, 1924 to 1994, told by the old boys themselves
Bristol
Bristol's forty-five-acre Victorian garden cemetery — heritage site, nature reserve and working burial ground
Salisbury
Sir Edward Heath's final home in Salisbury's Cathedral Close, preserved with his art, porcelain and sailing memorabilia
Malmesbury
England's oldest borough — home to kings, monks, philosophers, and the first flying man
Avebury
The world's largest prehistoric stone circle — a Neolithic wonder with a museum at its heart
Marlborough
Tudor manor house in the heart of the world's largest prehistoric stone circle
Axminster
The story of Axminster carpets, told in Thomas Whitty's own factory building
Dartmouth
A Tudor blockhouse on Dartmouth's exquisite medieval waterfront — free open access
St Ives
The preserved studio and garden of Britain's greatest sculptor
Barrington
An early Tudor manor house near Ilminster, Somerset, with gardens influenced by Gertrude Jekyll
Beaminster
The story of a West Dorset market town rebuilt from fire, and the flax and sailcloth trade that once sustained it
Cheltenham
A 5,000-year-old Neolithic long barrow with a famous false entrance, high on the Cotswold ridge
Berkeley
870 years of one family's ownership — and the site of King Edward II's 1327 murder
Totnes
Medieval castle and unfinished Elizabethan palace in a hauntingly beautiful Devon woodland
Exeter
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter is one of Britain's finest and most distinctive museum collections — a vast archive of visual…
Teignmouth
The story of a Devon estuary village, told from a community archive of some four thousand items
Blandford Forum
A specialist historic costume collection in Georgian townhouses rebuilt after Blandford's Great Fire of 1731
Blandford Forum
The Georgian town rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1731 and the Bastard brothers' achievement
Old Sarum Airfield
Britain's experimental aviation heritage — prototype and test aircraft from Boscombe Down
Newton Abbot
From an archbishop's murder to industrial pottery — the layered history of a Dartmoor-edge Devon market town
Bradford on Avon
A 14th-century masterpiece of monastic architecture — one of England's finest tithe barns
Braunton
Great Field, ancient dunes, and the road to D-Day — Braunton's remarkable story
Bridport
Eight centuries of rope, net, and twine making — and the town that built the British fishing industry
Dartmouth
The Royal Navy's officer training college and its history, on a pre-booked guided tour above the River Dart
Brixham
England's most consequential fishing port — the Glorious Revolution, the birth of deep-sea trawling, and Drake's tradition
Buckfastleigh
Gateway to Dartmoor — wool, railways, and the monks who rebuilt an abbey by hand
Yelverton
From Cistercian monastery to the home of Sir Francis Drake — a house of extraordinary history in the Devon countryside
Bideford
North Devon's leading gallery — British art, Bideford lace, and the story of a great Atlantic port
Penryn
Cornish mining heritage and mineral specimens at one of the world's foremost mining education institutions
Drewsteignton
The last castle built in England, Lutyens' granite masterpiece on Dartmoor
Isle of Portland
Commemorating Portland's role as a key American embarkation point for the D-Day landings on Omaha Beach
Chard
Powered flight, artificial limbs and machine lace, in a thatched house on Chard High Street
Tetbury
A lived-in Elizabethan manor with Civil War legend and a starring role on screen
Cheltenham
One of Britain's finest Roman villas, discovered by accident in a Cotswold valley
Chippenham
From Saxon Kings to Market Town — A Thousand Years of Wiltshire Heritage
Penzance
One of Britain's finest Iron Age settlements — two thousand years of stone-walled courtyard houses
Bristol
Brunel's first great bridge, explained from the Leigh Woods end
Broadclyst
A working watermill on the River Clyst within the wider Killerton estate, demonstrating traditional Devon grain milling
Wareham
The simple, evocative retreat of T.E. Lawrence — Lawrence of Arabia — preserved as he left it
Cullompton
Where Wool Still Works — A Living Mill in the Devon Countryside
Nether Stowey
The Somerset home where Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'
Marldon
A complete fortified medieval manor — the Gilbert family seat for six centuries and birthplace of explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Corfe-castle
A dramatic hilltop ruin — Civil War siege, royal intrigue, and Purbeck panoramas
Cirencester
The Capital of Roman Britain's Cotswolds — Mosaics, History, and the Story of Corinium
Saltash
England's most complete medieval manor house: original tapestries, no electricity, unchanged for five centuries
Chipping Campden
The Guild of Handicraft and a century of Cotswold craft, beside St James's Church
Crewkerne
Sailcloth, Webbing, and the Story of a Somerset Market Town
Marlborough
The world's oldest working beam engine, still pumping water for the Kennet and Avon Canal
Dartmouth
England's first purpose-built artillery castle, guardian of Dartmouth harbour since 1481
Watchet
An Anglo-Saxon promontory earthwork with spectacular Bristol Channel views — free open access
Cinderford
Deep in the Forest — Mining, Making, and the Spirit of the Free Miners
Lifton
Ride the past at Europe's finest fairground heritage collection
Chippenham
Magnificent baroque country house in a 263-acre deer park on the Cotswolds edge
Berkeley
Edward Jenner's Georgian home in Berkeley, where vaccination began in 1796
Honiton
The Devon airfield that became a US Navy base fighting the Battle of the Atlantic
Stroud
An 1855 waterwheel still driving the machinery that finished Stroud cloth
Minehead
Hilltop castle with 600 years of Luttrell family history on the edge of Exmoor
Bristol
Over 100,000 geological specimens dating to 1905, with free public displays and appointment-based deeper collection access
Plymouth
Step Inside Elizabethan Plymouth — Near the Mayflower Steps
Totnes
The Dartington collection of Modern British art and ceramics, shown publicly for the first time in the Elmhirsts' own house
Exmouth
Devon's oldest seaside resort, and the working port underneath it
Budleigh Salterton
A thatched Regency cottage orné on the seafront, holding the history of Budleigh Salterton and the Otter valley
Falmouth
Cornish art from Newlyn to St Ives, plus a nationally renowned collection of magical automata
Farleigh Hungerford
14th-century castle ruins with exceptional medieval frescoes, tombs, and chapel
Sturminster Newton
Exceptional 14th-century manor house interior — the finest arch-braced timber roofs of any domestic building in the South West
Sticklepath
The last working water-powered forge in England — thundering tilt hammers on the edge of Dartmoor
Broomfield
A Quantock Hills nature reserve and visitor centre on the former estate of pioneering Victorian electrical scientist Andrew Crosse
Yeovilton
The world's largest naval aviation museum — 100 years of British carrier flying
Frenchay, Bristol
A volunteer-run window onto Quaker heritage and hospital history in a historic Bristol village
Gillingham
Thomas Hardy's Vale of Little Dairies — the story of Gillingham and the Blackmore Vale
Glastonbury
Ancient legend, magnificent ruins, and the heart of English Christian heritage
Glastonbury
Iron Age Britain Preserved in the Somerset Marshes — Glastonbury's Remarkable Lake Village
Bristol
The history of psychiatric care in Bristol, told from the former Bristol Lunatic Asylum
Gloucester
Britain's inland waterways story, told in a magnificent Victorian dockside warehouse
Shaftesbury
A thousand years of history at the top of England's most famous cobbled street
Grampound
The story of one of Cornwall's oldest boroughs and its notorious parliamentary history
Dartmoor
A perfectly preserved Bronze Age settlement in the heart of Dartmoor — free open moorland access
Winchcombe
Atmospheric Cistercian ruins and a museum of medieval pilgrimage in the Cotswolds
Hayle
Where Cornish engineering changed the world — the story of Harvey's Foundry and Hayle's industrial age
Helston
Furry Dance, serpentine stone, and the wireless signal that changed the world — Helston's extraordinary story told from the heart of the town
Christchurch
Gateway to a headland shaped by Iron Age traders, 19th-century ironstone miners, and thousands of years of natural history
Taunton
Three centuries of garden history and the finest Lutyens–Jekyll garden in the world
Chipping Campden
The garden 'rooms' that changed 20th-century garden design — the National Trust's first garden acquisition
Yate
Uncovering the hidden history of Yate and South Gloucestershire, from prehistoric times to new town development
Salisbury
A small Salisbury gallery celebrating a prolific crime writer's gift to his adopted city
Tewkesbury
Nature writing, wildlife wonder, and medieval beauty in the heart of Tewkesbury
Exeter
Where four centuries of fashion meet an intimate Devon country house and magnificent gardens
Camborne
Cornwall's oldest complete mine site, with a working tin-dressing mill inside a World Heritage landscape
Axbridge
A well-preserved late-medieval merchant's house on Axbridge's market square, its popular name reflecting local tradition rather than documented history
Kingsbridge
William Cookworthy, English porcelain, and the heritage of the South Hams
Wimborne minster
A magnificent seventeenth-century country house sheltering one of the finest private art collections in England, set within a sweeping Dorset estate
Wotton-under-Edge
Community museum for Kingswood and Wotton-under-Edge on the southern Cotswold edge
Tiverton
A High Victorian gothic masterpiece surrounded by one of the finest gardens in the South West
Wimborne Minster
A Norman church inside a Neolithic henge — 4,500 years of sacred landscape in a single view
Lacock
Medieval abbey, birthplace of photography, and one of England's finest National Trust properties — set in the perfectly preserved village of Lacock
Launceston
The great Norman gateway castle to Cornwall with panoramic views across the Tamar valley
Launceston
Georgian elegance meets Cornish history in a National Trust town house
Trewellard
Working 1840 Cornish beam engine on a UNESCO World Heritage cliff-edge tin mine
Dinton
A rare unaltered Tudor manor house within the National Trust's Dinton Park estate
Lydford
Saxon burgh and medieval stannary prison on the edge of Dartmoor — free open access
Lynton
Exmoor's dramatic landscape, the 1952 flood, and a community's resilience
Somerton
A medieval Somerset manor with enchanting gardens, cared for by the National Trust
Lostwithiel
Medieval capital of Cornwall — the story of tin, the Black Prince, and the River Fowey
Ludgershall
A royal hunting lodge and medieval market cross in the heart of Wiltshire
Wareham
Dorset's Jacobean castle folly — fire-scarred walls and England's first Catholic chapel
Lundy Island
An 1819 lighthouse abandoned for being built too high, on a remote island reached only by boat or helicopter
Dorchester
The severe brick villa Thomas Hardy designed for himself, where Tess and Jude were written
Mevagissey
Pilchards, smuggling and boatbuilding, in a 1745 workshop on the inner harbour
Minehead
Harbour town, seaside resort and Hobby Horse: the story of Minehead and its coast
Montacute
One of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, with magnificent gardens and an outstanding portrait collection
Langport
Exceptional late medieval abbot's lodgings surviving from a Benedictine abbey on the Somerset Levels
Barnstaple
The story of North Devon from prehistory to the present, in the heart of the region's capital
Braunton
The world's only accredited museum of British surfing history — riding the wave since the 1920s
Okehampton
The human story of Dartmoor, from prehistoric times to the present day
Gloucester
Two thousand years of Gloucester's history, from Roman Glevum to the present day
Tavistock
Nearly two centuries of policing history in Devon and Cornwall, told from a historic combined court and police station
Taunton
12,000 years of Somerset's extraordinary story in the heart of Taunton Castle
Falmouth
Cornwall's Sea Stories - Britain's Finest Small Boat Collection
Gloucester
The world's first museum dedicated to art inspired by nature
Wotton-under-Edge
A Tudor hunting lodge on the Cotswold edge, rescued and reimagined by a Texan architect
Appledore
Appledore's seafarers, shipbuilders, and the Atlantic Newfoundland trade
Weymouth
A magnificent Victorian coastal fort guarding Weymouth harbour, now a museum of military and local history with stunning sea views
Salisbury
Five thousand years of history on a hilltop — Iron Age fort, Roman town, Norman cathedral, and England's most notorious rotten borough
Tisbury
England's unique hexagonal castle — Lady Arundell's Civil War siege and a picturesque landscape ruin
Ottery St Mary
Birthplace of Coleridge and home to England's most fiery Guy Fawkes tradition
Padstow
'Obby Oss, ancient harbours, and Atlantic shores — the story of a north Cornwall port
Falmouth
Henry VIII's mighty coastal fortress commanding spectacular views across Falmouth harbour and beyond
Plymouth
Plymouth's civic treasure — art, nature and the story of a remarkable city
Padstow
An Elizabethan mansion overlooking Padstow harbour, ancestral home of the Prideaux-Brune family since 1592 and a frequent film and TV location
Swindon
Birthplace of a Victorian visionary — nature, wildness, and imagination
Rodmarton
A Cotswold Arts and Crafts masterpiece built 1909–1929 for the Biddulph family, with exceptional hand-crafted interiors and furnishings entirely in situ
Exeter
Museum of the Year — world-class collections of art, cultures, and natural history in the heart of Exeter
Truro
Cornwall's oldest and most important museum, exploring the unique heritage, culture, and natural world of Britain's Celtic peninsula
Lyneham
The Art and Science of Keeping the Army Fighting
Blandford Forum
From heliograph to satellite — the story of British military communications
Bournemouth
A Victorian collector's paradise above the Bournemouth cliffs since 1908
Salcombe
The seafaring history of one of South Devon's most beautiful estuary towns
Shaftesbury
Founded by Alfred the Great in 888 AD — ruins and museum of England's most powerful medieval nunnery
Sherborne
Saxon abbey, medieval castles, Raleigh's house, and a famous public school
Street
Two hundred years of Clarks shoemaking history, in a restored Tudor building at Clarks Village
Avebury
Europe's largest prehistoric mound — a 4,400-year-old mystery that has never been solved
Gloucester
The story of the Glorious Glosters — courage across three centuries
Bridgwater
The last surviving trace of Bridgwater's once-mighty brick and tile industry
Taunton
Three centuries of Somerset soldiers — the county regiment's story from Blenheim to the Gulf
Glastonbury
Seven centuries of Somerset farming heritage in a magnificent medieval barn
South-molton
The Story of a Devon Market Town on the Edge of Exmoor
St Agnes
Cornish mining heritage, Bal maidens, and clifftop engine houses in a north Cornwall village
St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall's fishing, mining and art colony history — not to be confused with St Ives, Cambridgeshire
Chew Valley
England's second largest stone circle complex — a Neolithic wonder in the Chew Valley
Stanway
A Jacobean manor near the Cotswolds, seat of the Earl of Wemyss, home to Britain's tallest gravity-fed fountain and historic water garden
Swindon
The story of the Great Western Railway — engineering genius in the heart of Swindon
Warminster
An 18th-century masterpiece — a Palladian house of magnificent art and a landscape garden of unparalleled beauty in the Wiltshire hills
Sturminster Newton
Blackmore Vale history in the town centre and a working watermill on the Stour
Teignmouth
The story of Teignmouth and the Teign estuary — town, sea, and river
Teignmouth
Maritime heritage and Brunel's Atmospheric Railway on the Devon estuary
Porthcurno
Where Britain Connected to the World — The Global Telegraph Hub
Tetbury
Cells, charge room and courtroom preserved together in a Cotswold town
Tewkesbury
The battle, the abbey and the river trade of a Gloucestershire town, in a timber-framed house on Barton Street
Wells
A moated medieval palace and fourteen acres of gardens beside Wells Cathedral
Gotherington
Ettore and Jean Bugatti's drawings, archive and cars, beside the Prescott Hill Climb
Dorchester
The UK's first dedicated dinosaur museum — in the heart of the Jurassic Coast
Wareham
One man's extraordinary lifetime of fossil discovery, revealing the astonishing marine world of Jurassic Dorset
Weston-super-mare
The world's largest dedicated helicopter museum, with over 100 rotorcraft spanning the entire history of vertical flight
Salisbury
Salisbury's public gallery for changing contemporary and community art since 1913
St Ives
Britain's most influential studio pottery — Bernard Leach's living legacy in St Ives
Swindon
A volunteer-run collection preserving the machines of the personal computing revolution
Bristol
The World's Oldest Methodist Building — Where a Movement Was Born
Wimborne minster
Six centuries of history within a medieval townhouse and its beautiful walled garden in the heart of Wimborne Minster
Salisbury
Three centuries of military service in a medieval Cathedral Close building
Salisbury
Stonehenge, Wessex prehistory, and 2,000 years of Salisbury in a magnificent Cathedral Close setting
Wareham
Home to the world's finest collection of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles, spanning over a century of mechanised warfare
Cheltenham
Arts and Crafts Masterpieces, Dutch Masters, and the Story of Cheltenham
Bournemouth
Contemporary art and design exhibitions at Arts University Bournemouth, with a national and international touring programme
Thornbury
Henry VIII's Tudor castle and the history of a South Gloucestershire market town
Tintagel
The Tintagel Old Post Office is one of the oldest and most atmospheric domestic buildings in Cornwall — a 14th-century manor farmhouse in the centre of…
Tiverton
Celebrating the people, history, and heritage of mid-Devon from prehistoric times to the present day
Torquay
One of England's oldest museums — from Devon's prehistoric caves to Agatha Christie's Torquay
Torquay
A remarkable medieval abbey turned Victorian mansion housing one of the South West's finest art collections
Totnes
A perfectly preserved Norman shell keep above one of Devon's most historic towns
Totnes
Step inside a Tudor merchant's world in the heart of medieval Totnes
Newquay
A gem of Elizabethan architecture with unexpected treasures in the Cornish countryside
Trowbridge
Celebrating the rich woollen cloth-making heritage of Wiltshire's county town
Bristol
One of Britain's largest theatre history archives — designs, prompt books and personal archives from three centuries of British theatre
Watchet
Exploring the rich maritime, industrial, and community heritage of Watchet, one of Somerset's oldest and most characterful harbour towns
Weymouth
Celebrating the rich history of Weymouth and the Dorset coast, from Roman times to the Georgian resort era and beyond
Wells
England's smallest city, explored through geology, archaeology, and ten centuries of Somerset life
Avebury
Walk inside a 5,600-year-old Neolithic tomb — Britain's finest chambered long barrow
Weston-super-mare
Exploring the history and heritage of Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding Somerset coast
Bridgwater
An 1861 steam pumping engine still working in the house it was built for
Westwood
Westwood Manor is a beautiful and largely unaltered late 15th-century stone manor house in the small village of Westwood, near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire —…
St austell
Cornwall's china clay heritage centre — explore the industry that built mid-Cornwall
Winchcombe
Cotswold folk life and policing history in the ancient capital of Winchcombeshire
Woodchester
An unfinished Victorian Gothic mansion, frozen in time and home to a rare bat colony
Wotton-under-Edge
A Cotswolds wool town's history and archive, in a converted fire station