Overflowing with vistas, temples and exotic trees, Stourhead is landscape gardening at its finest. The magnificent 18th-century gardens spread across the valley, with a picturesque 2-mile garden circuit taking you past ornate follies, around a centrepiece lake and to the Georgian Temple of Apollo. A 3.5-mile side trip can be made from near the Pantheon to a 50m-high folly called King Alfred's Tower. Stourhead is off the B3092, 10 miles south of Frome.
Palladian Stourhead house has some fine Chippendale furniture and paintings by Claude and Gaspard Poussin. Check the website for the latest on house admission prices and opening times.
