Palladian landscape garden of lake and temples.
Open to visitorsa National Trust place — check opening times and admission before you go
Henry Hoare II dammed the River Stour in the 1740s to make the lake at the heart of Stourhead, then ringed it with classical set pieces — a domed Pantheon of the 1750s, a Temple of Apollo, grottoes — reached on a circuit walk that turns up a new view at every bend. He gave it to the National Trust in 1946. Paid entry near Mere, with the wider estate beyond the garden.
