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About 26 miles away
The great prehistoric stone circle on Salisbury Plain, with the far larger Avebury ring nearby.
1 Sight
Prior Park Landscape Garden
An 18th-century landscape garden on a hillside, with a Palladian bridge and a view over the city.
- Open
- Every day in summer; check winter days
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Ralph Allen Drive, Bath BA2 5AHDirections
- Getting There
- Bus from the center, about 15 minutes; there's no car park.
Why Go
Ralph Allen, who made his fortune from Bath stone and the postal service, created the garden with advice from the poet Alexander Pope and Capability Brown. Its Palladian bridge is one of only four like it in the world.
Nearby in Bath
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