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About 21 miles away
The great prehistoric stone circle on Salisbury Plain, with the far larger Avebury ring nearby.
1 Sight
Lacock
A National Trust village of half-timbered houses and an abbey where the first photographic negative was made.
- Open
- Always; the abbey keeps its own hours
- Price
- Free; paid for the abbey
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Lacock, Chippenham SN15 2LGDirections
- Getting There
- About 30 minutes by car, or a train to Chippenham and a short bus ride.
Why Go
Almost the whole village belongs to the National Trust and looks much as it did centuries ago, which is why film crews use it for period dramas and two Harry Potter films. At Lacock Abbey, William Henry Fox Talbot made the earliest surviving photographic negative in 1835, of an abbey window.
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