National Trust & English Heritage places in Somerset

Tudor manor with Gertrude Jekyll gardens and a restored Strode House near Ilminster in Somerset.

Georgian social venue designed by John Wood the Younger in 1771, featured in Jane Austen's novels.

Six-mile circular walk through meadows and beech woods on the hills above Bath, with views over the city, Sham Castle, a woodland play area and shorter accessible trails.

A thatched hamlet on the Holnicote Estate with its own car park, a pebble beach lined with lime kilns and wartime defences, and coast path walks to Hurlstone Point.

A dramatic limestone peninsula in the Bristol Channel with a Victorian fort and panoramic views.

An Iron Age hillfort near Tickenham with views across the Gordano Valley and Bristol Channel.

Britain's largest gorge, a dramatic limestone ravine through the Mendip Hills with rare Cheddar pink flowers.

One of England's finest medieval manor houses, with 700 years of architecture and terraced gardens overlooking the Bristol Channel.

Somerset cottage where Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan in the 1790s.

A medieval hilltop castle with subtropical gardens overlooking the Bristol Channel and Exmoor.

A medieval packhorse bridge over the River Avill, managed by the National Trust outside Dunster Castle.

Quantock Hills garden and nature reserve, former estate of the Victorian electrical experimenter Andrew Crosse.

An iconic hilltop tower steeped in Arthurian legend with panoramic views across the Somerset Levels.

12,500-acre Exmoor estate with picturesque villages, ancient Horner Wood and access to Dunkery Beacon.

Ancient oak wood pasture and National Nature Reserve on the Holnicote Estate, Exmoor, with a 500-year-old oak, a packhorse bridge over Horner Water and paths up to Webber's Post and Dunkery Beacon.

A striking Tudor merchant's house on the market square in Axbridge, now a local museum.

Ancient woodland above the Avon Gorge with rare whitebeams and views of Clifton Suspension Bridge.

A medieval manor house linked to the Elizabethan botanist Henry Lyte, with Arts and Crafts gardens.

A masterpiece of Elizabethan architecture with England's longest Long Gallery and Tudor portraits.

A thatched medieval hall-house of 1308 in Muchelney village, with a Gothic doorway, double-height tracery windows and a huge 15th-century fireplace, open for a short season each year.

A narrow headland reaching into the Bristol Channel north of Weston-super-Mare, with views over Sand Bay, Iron Age history and birdlife on the mud flats.

Village of thatched, ochre-limewashed cottages on the Holnicote Estate, with the Periwinkle Tea-room, a white church and paths up through the woods to Bury Castle and Selworthy Beacon.

The last thatched windmill in England, with views to Glastonbury Tor from the Somerset Levels.

A 14th-century chantry complex of golden Ham stone with a medieval great hall in Somerset.

Exquisite small garden of interconnected rooms around a 17th-century Somerset farmhouse, a masterclass in planting design.

Small medieval house in Martock, still a private home, with a Great Hall of 1293, a 15th-century kitchen and a rare medieval wall painting, shown by guided tour on limited open days.

A lookout on Exmoor's Holnicote Estate with views over Horner Wood to Dunkery Beacon, an easy-access trail from the car park and walks into the ancient oak woods.

A 175-foot obelisk on the Blackdown Hills honouring the Duke of Wellington's Waterloo victory.

The grassy remains of an Anglo-Saxon coastal stronghold above Watchet, with a diverted walking approach.

A medieval market cross on the edge of Dunster, recalling the town's wool and dairy trade.

Dunster's octagonal timber market hall of 1609, a monument to the village cloth trade in the middle of the High Street.

A late medieval stone town house with a Tudor front on Glastonbury High Street, home to the Lake Village Museum's Iron Age finds.

Muchelney Abbey's surviving abbot's lodgings form a small early Tudor mansion beside the foundations of a once wealthy monastery.

An accessible Neolithic burial chamber reached by a countryside path near Wellow.

A working archaeological collections store offering research appointments and arranged small-group tours.