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
In moorland near the hamlet of Gidleigh stands perhaps Dartmoor's most impressive stone Circle. Scorhill Stone Circle originally boasts around 70 standing stones. Of these, 23 remain upright with another 11 fallen. Nearby is the Tolmen Stone, used in fertility and healing rituals. ... more

Bayards Cove Inn
Located in the picturesque old part of town adjoining the cobbled quayside from where the Pilgrims set sail in 1620 Bayards Cove Inn offers guests comfortable and stylish accommodation near the water's edge within this historic Tudor Merchants house. Bayards Cove has been a favourite location for numerous nautical films …
Accommodation Rating: 44
Heritage Rating:
Stay From: £50.00
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