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7. The Lacock Abbey is a National Trust site, so if you have an NT card you can get in free-
Fri Apr 15, 2022, 06:32 PM
Apr 2022

And there's a little museum dedicated to William Henry Fox, a very early photography pioneer. (He invented the negative.) He owned the Abbey at some point.

Stonehenge is quite close, maybe 25 miles.

Also, if you like stone circles, the one at Avebury (which encircles an entire village) is less dramatic, but impressive because it's so huge. That's about 15 miles from Lacock.

If you don't have a car, there are some good bus tours that take you to all three of these in a day trip, and they usually start in Salisbury, which has a beautiful cathedral.

You can tell I love love love Wiltshire and Somerset.

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