Other sights in GloucestershireGloucestershire, England

A limestone bluff 120 metres above the Wye's great loop, with peregrines nesting in the cliffs below the viewpoint most springs since 1982.

Fourteen acres of moss-grown scowles — ancient iron workings — threaded with boardwalks; film crews from Doctor Who to Star Wars treat it as off-the-shelf fairyland.

Tidal wave that sweeps upriver against the current on the Severn, ridden by surfers on the biggest tides.

Restored Victorian dock basin of tall brick warehouses, now museums, shops and a waterside brewery.

Iron Age hillfort and golf-course common above Painswick, with wide views across the Severn Vale.

Family maze and gardens above the Wye at Symonds Yat West, with a butterfly house alongside.

Forest-edge lookout above Newnham with a great sweep of the horseshoe bend in the Severn.

Ancient iron-ore mine in the Forest of Dean, its worked-out caverns open to visitors underground.

Slender pinnacle of rock left by quarrymen on Leckhampton Hill, poised above Cheltenham.

Organic cidery near Cheltenham with a taproom, street food and cider-and-cheese tastings.

Grandest of Cheltenham's Regency spa buildings, a colonnaded pump room set in its own park.

Ornate classical portal of one of Britain's longest canal tunnels, in the woods above Coates.

Unfinished Victorian Gothic mansion abandoned mid-build in a secret Cotswold valley, home to rare horseshoe bats.

Thomas Telford's broad single stone arch over the Severn just west of Gloucester, finished in the late 1820s and now closed to traffic.