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  • 1 Stourhead Worth a journey Worth a journey Worth a journey

    Nature and gardens

    The Square GB - Mere BA12 6JJ

    The garden at Stourhead, designed by the banker Henry Hoare II (1705-85), is a superb example of English landscape gardening. He was inspired by his travels and paintings by Claude Lorraine and Nicholas Poussin, in which nature is presented in lumino..

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    Religious buildings

    Park Walk GB - Shaftesbury SP7 8JR

    Founded in 888 by Alfred for his daughter, the abbey became the richest of its kind in England. In the 15 and 16C, it was said that if the abbess of Shaston (Shaftesbury) were to marry the abbot of Glaston(bury), their heirs would have more land than..