Bristol Airport 1 hr 12
Lytes Cary (19 min) Garden and architecture Sherborne Museum (11 min) National Trust - Montacute House (26 min) National Trust country manor from 1601 with Tudor art in noted Long Gallery, plus formal gardens. Fleet Air Arm Museum (14 min) Huge military and civilian airplane collection, plus interactive aircraft carrier exhibit. King Alfred's Tower (34 min) East Lambrook Manor Gardens (31 min) Haynes International Motor Museum (15 min) UK's biggest exhibition of cars and motorbikes dating from 1900 to today, plus kids' play areas. National Trust - Lytes Cary Manor (21 min) Cerne Abbas Giant (30 min) Mysterious, club wielding, naked male figure, of indeterminable age, cut into a chalk hillside. Tintinhull Garden (22 min) This picturesque garden with areas separated by walls & hedges surrounds a 17th-century house. Sherborne Castle & Gardens (13 min) 16th-century castle with lavish furnishings, fine art and antiquities, plus huge gardens and a lake. Sherborne Old Castle (12 min) Remains of a medieval castle with a well-preserved gatehouse & verdant grounds home to birdlife. Sherborne Abbey (11 min) Abbey founded in 705AD and famed for its Elizabethan tombs and its unique, ornate vaulted ceiling. Yeovil Railway Centre (19 min) Historic place with full-scale locomotive cars & a mini-train ride, plus an art gallery & gift shop. Cadbury Castle (13 min) Hilltop ruins of a millennia-old fortress with ties to the legend of King Arthur, popular for walks. |