Houses & gardens in SomersetSomerset, England

Golden-stone Elizabethan showpiece with long gallery.

The first country house the National Trust took on, with Jekyll-influenced walled gardens.

A High Victorian Gothic pile remodelled in the 1860s on a Peruvian guano fortune.

A parkland of four eccentric 1770s follies, including Jack the Treacle Eater.

Three gardens from three centuries, including an early Lutyens and Jekyll formal garden.

Edwardian hillside terraces framing Wells Cathedral and the Vale of Avalon below.

Landscape garden with a Palladian bridge over Bath.

A moated medieval palace whose swans ring a bell for food, taught since the 1870s.

A small Arts and Crafts garden of yew-clipped rooms and bold, painterly colour schemes.

Hillside gardens at Claverton Manor above Bath, with a replica of George Washington's Mount Vernon garden and a New American arboretum.

Restored medieval priory garden near Bridgwater with hot herbaceous borders, a sub-tropical glasshouse and a blue-and-yellow garden.

Free contemporary-art farm on the edge of Bruton with Piet Oudolf's naturalistic prairie garden of grasses and perennials behind the galleries.

Lakeside Shepton Mallet garden with rock banks and herbaceous borders staged against the tall arches of the Victorian Charlton Viaduct.

A medieval manor with Arts and Crafts topiary rooms, once a Tudor herbalist's home.

Victorian pleasure-ground valley on the edge of Yeovil, with waterfalls, ponds, stepping stones and wooded walks.

A hillside cemetery laid out by John Claudius Loudon in 1844, above Bath.

A manor of around 1320 with a medieval hall and hillside terraces Jekyll praised.

Margery Fish's definitive English cottage garden, with a celebrated snowdrop collection.

A Capability Brown landscape around a ruined castle keep, now a university campus.

Georgian parkland with a walled garden, huge ice house and centuries-old specimen trees.

Opened in 1830 by an eleven-year-old Princess Victoria, below the Royal Crescent.

A small Edwardian park with a ha-ha and bandstand, laid out for Edward VII's coronation.

A National Trust place in Somerset.

A National Trust place in Somerset.

A National Trust place in Somerset.

A National Trust place in Somerset.

A National Trust place in Somerset.