The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Prehistoric Wessex
Salisbury / Amesbury
- 1
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is worth allowing time for because it combines surviving archaeological evidence that makes an otherwise distant period unusually tangible. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are surviving structures and excavated features, site interpretation connecting remains with their period, main landscape viewpoints and geological, coastal, moorland or mountain features. Its position in or near Amesbury also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Roman and medieval Bath
Bath
- 1
Roman Baths
Roman Baths is worth allowing time for because it combines surviving archaeological evidence that makes an otherwise distant period unusually tangible. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are permanent collection galleries, objects and displays linked to the site’s central story, surviving structures and excavated features and site interpretation connecting remains with their period. Its position in or near Bath also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey is worth allowing time for because it combines architecture, worship spaces, monuments and the changing use of a long-lived religious site. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are nave, choir and principal architectural details, memorials, chapels and historic fittings and historic urban setting. Its position in or near Bath also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Brunel and the Avon Gorge
Bristol
- 1
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Clifton Suspension Bridge is worth allowing time for because it combines a structure whose engineering, design and relationship with its surroundings can be read on site. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are key structural details, the building’s relationship with the surrounding streetscape or landscape and historic urban setting. Its position in or near Bristol also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.