West Country Travel Guide
Historic Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset
Top Heritage-Rated
Glastonbury Abbey 
The Roman Baths
Wells Cathedral
Powderham Castle
Bath
More Major Historic places to visit
Castles
Corfe Castle
Farleigh
Hungerford
Pendennis Castle
Restormel Castle
Tintagel Castle
Totnes
Abbeys and Monasteries
Cleeve Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey
Countryside:
Dartmoor
- Dartmoor Photo Gallery
Exmoor
Historic Houses
Antony House
Athelhampton House
Castle Drogo
Cotehele House
Forde Abbey
Knightshayes Court
Lanhydrock
Montacute House
Pencarrow House
Powderham Castle
Prideaux Place
St. Michael's Mount
Saltram House
Trewithen House
Gardens
Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens
Coleton Fishacre
Killerton Gardens
Marwood Hill
Rosemoor Garden
Trebah Gardens
Forde Abbey
Ancient Sites
Carn Brea
Maiden Castle
Cerne Abbas Giant
Situated at the mouth of the River Dart, Dartmouth has been an important seaport since medieval times. The naval heritage is carried on in the Britannia Royal Naval College. At the entrance to the Dart is Dartmouth Castle, begun in 1388. Beside the castle is St Petroc's church, established in … ... more
Cricket St. Thomas Hotel Short Breaks
Although the elegant mansion of Cricket St.Thomas is avowedly Regency in style the present house was designed by the neo-Classicist Sir John Soane and set within glorious landscaped gardens based on a design by Capability Brown. The Manors proud history actually predates 1086. Since its rebuilding in 1820, Cricket has …
Accommodation Rating: 4*
Heritage Rating:
Stay From: £279.00
1. The west front of Wells Cathedral
2. The haunting tors of Dartmoor
3. The water-bound causeway to St Michael's Mount
4. Cycling
on the Somerset Levels
5. The gardens at Forde Abbey
