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The Arthurian Centre The
centre is located at Slaughterbridge near Camelford, considered by
some to be the site of Camelot in north Cornwall. Unravel fact from
fiction. What links King Arthur to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings,
Harry Potter and Shrek? Come and find out. Archaeological site open
to the public. Now open is “Lady Falmouth’s Secret Garden”, an 18th
century garden rediscovered in 2005. Ongoing restoration - come and
visit now and visit the garden gradually brought to life!!
Avebury World Heritage Site (Nat Trust) nr Marlborough. Wilts.
Avebury Stone Circles. One of the most important megalithic
monuments in Europe is spread over a vast area at Avebury, much of
it under Trust protection. The great stone circle, encompassing part
of the village of Avebury, is enclosed by a ditch and external bank.
Many of the stones were re-erected in the 1930s by the archaeologist
Alexander Keiller
Bath -
the elegant city. Stroll down crescents or take the waters at the Roman Baths
Pump Room.
China Clay
Country Park Set in 26 acres of woodland nestling in
the historic Ruddle Valley on the outskirts of St Austell, the China
Clay Country Park provides a fascinating day out for all the family.
Set in the grounds of two former working China Clay Pits and
provides visitors with a fascinating insight into China Clay - how
it was mined, what is was used for and what it meant for the
families who lived in the area
 Cobbaton
Combat Collection, Umberleigh, Devon. Military
museum and tourist attraction, this North Devon collection covers
mostly World War Two and the years 1939 - 1945, but with exhibits
from the Boer War, up to the First Gulf War - a hobby that ran
away with itself!
Chysauster Ancient Village
at New Mill Gulval Penzance. This Iron Age
settlement was originally occupied almost 2,000 years ago. The
village consisted of eight stone-walled homesteads known as
‘courtyard houses’, found only on the Land’s End peninsula and the
Isles of Scilly. The houses line a ‘village street’, and each had an
open central courtyard surrounded by a number of thatched rooms.
There are also the remains of an enigmatic ‘fogou’ underground
passage.
Geevor Tin Mine Heritage Centre Penzance
Cornwall. Until 1990 Geevor was a working mine, now a museum, with
many surface buildings, a guided underground tour through 18th /
19th century workings, a shop and a cafe.
Gloucester Antiques
Centre has five floors packed with antiques and collectables of
all descriptions. We have over 140 individual dealers selling items
ranging from furniture, porcelain, glassware, fine silver, jewellery
to cards, stamps, toys, linen, fabrics, clocks and many other
decorative antiques
Godolphin Nat Trust
Godolphin Cross, Helston, Cornwall TR13 9RE
Telephone: 01736 763194
Ancient and atmospheric house and garden set within an historic
estate.
The main door on the north front
of Godolphin House, once the home of Queen Anne's Lord High
Treasurer, Sidney Godolphin, near Helston, Cornwall. The original
fortified house was replaced in the fifteenth-century and later
additions made it the finest house in Cornwall by the
seventeenth-century.
©NTPL/Andrew Butler
Holst Museum Cheltenham
Gloucs. Birthplace (1874) of composer Gustav Holst, composer of The
Planets.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine
Nat Trust
Trewellard
Pendeen
nr St Just
Cornwall TR19 7SX
Telephone: 01736 786156
Unique steam-powered Cornish beam engine in action.
Levant Mine (Cornish Engines)
Close view of part of the pump
mechanism, spanner and oilcan, in the engine house of the Levant
beam engine, a restored steam-powered Cornish beam engine once used
to hoist ore from Levant Mine near St Just, Cornwall.
Copyright: ©NTPL/Ian Shaw
Lost Gardens of Heligan (Lost Gardens of
Heligan is one of the most mysterious estates in
England. At the end of the 19th century its 1000 acres were at their
zenith, but only a few years later bramble and ivy were already
drawing a green veil over this "Sleeping Beauty".) However, all
was not lost - go and see for yourself
National Maritime
Museum in Falmouth
Housed
in an award winning building on the Falmouth harbour-side, the
National Maritime Museum Cornwall transports you into the world of
small boats and Cornish maritime history.
The
Museum is open every day of the year from
10am - 5pm, except
Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Old Sarum, Castle Road,
Salisbury. The original site of the ancient city of Salisbury sits
high above Salisbury Plain. In the Iron Age a hillfort was created
here, then came the Romans. Then Saxons created a town within its
defences. After 1066 William the Conqueror visited regularly and
part of the Doomsday Book was written here.
 Shaftesbury Abbey Museum and Garden Dorset is set on the site
of Saxons England’s foremost Benedictine nunnery founded by King
Alfred in 888AD - The Garden - The plants you see in our Anglo-Saxon
collection are just a few that would have been used by the nuns for
flavouring foods, help to heal the sick and to dye cloth
Tiverton Museum in Tiverton
Devon. The social history collections are the finest in the South
West and together they form the fourth largest assemblage of
historic objects in Devon
Trerice Nat Trust
Kestle Mill, nr Newquay, Cornwall TR8 4PG
Telephone: 01637 875404
Elizabethan manor house with fine interiors and delightful garden.
The Entrance Hall at Trerice. Trerice is built on the
traditional plan of an Elizabethan manor house with a screens passage running between porches on the east and west fronts.
©NTPL/Andreas von Einsiedel
National Trust
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