Bristol Airport 1 hr 26
Gold Hill Museum (19 min)
Renovated, sandstone cottage and leafy garden housing local history exhibitions (March-November). Sherborne Old Castle (24 min)
Remains of a medieval castle with a well-preserved gatehouse & verdant grounds home to birdlife. Bulbarrow Hill (12 min) Hod Hill (9 min)
Sizable hill fort from the Iron Age, featuring scenic views, wildflowers & butterflies. Sherborne Abbey (26 min)
Abbey founded in 705AD and famed for its Elizabethan tombs and its unique, ornate vaulted ceiling. Hall and Woodhouse Brewery (16 min)
Tours of brewery founded in 1777, detailing beer-making process, plus tastings and bar/restaurant. Sherborne Castle & Gardens (24 min)
16th-century castle with lavish furnishings, fine art and antiquities, plus huge gardens and a lake. Fiddleford Manor (8 min) Larmer Tree Gardens (26 min)
Expansive Victorian gardens with laurel hedges, flowers and woods, plus ornate, original buildings. Hambledon Hill (10 min)
Landmark 190-m. hill with ruins of an Iron Age fort & dog-friendly walking paths amid grassland. Badbury Rings (21 min)
These circular ditches & ridges on a hilltop mark the former site of an Iron Age fort. Athelhampton House & Gardens (31 min)
Tours, dining & ballet performances at a Tudor mansion from 1485, with a classic English garden. Shaftesbury Abbey, Museum and Garden Trust (19 min)
Abbey, garden, convent, and history Old Wardour Castle (37 min)
Partially ruined, turreted, 14th-century, fortified residence with panoramic views. Cerne Abbas Giant (29 min)
Mysterious, club wielding, naked male figure, of indeterminable age, cut into a chalk hillside. | 
