Other sights in SomersetSomerset, England

Britain's largest gorge, a 400-foot limestone canyon cut through the Mendips with a cliff-edge road, show caves and clifftop walks.

An elegant Grade I Victorian pier of 1869 reaching into the Bristol Channel, called by Betjeman the most beautiful in England.

John Wood the Younger's sweep of 30 Georgian houses, built 1767 to 1774, its 114 columns facing open parkland.

A dramatic limestone headland striding out into the sea near Weston, topped by downland, a Victorian fort and huge Channel views.

Rocky Mendip valley of tumbled limestone crags whose 'Rock of Ages' cleft is said to have inspired the hymn.

An iron-red holy spring in ornamental gardens at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, a place of pilgrimage for centuries.

John Rennie's Grade I aqueduct carrying the Kennet & Avon Canal over the Avon valley — the first canal structure in Britain to be scheduled.

The great seaside pleasure pier reaching over the sands at Weston, its pavilion full of rides and arcades.

Britain's longest standard-gauge heritage line, running steam trains twenty miles from Bishops Lydeard along the coast to Minehead.

A working withy farm and museum at Stoke St Gregory on the Levels, where willow is still grown, cut and woven the traditional way.

A rocky limestone summit at the western tip of the Mendips, its bare crown giving sweeping views over the Levels to the sea.

A grassy Mendip shoulder above Ebbor, rated by locals the best view in Somerset, taking in Glastonbury Tor, the Quantocks and Wales.

One of Britain's largest surviving Atlantic oakwoods, a mossy valley of ancient trees and packhorse bridges below Dunkery on Exmoor.

A 160-foot triangular brick folly of 1772 on the Stourhead estate near Brewham, marking where Alfred is said to have rallied his men.

A 300-year-old cider farm at Kingsbury Episcopi, home to Burrow Hill cider and England's original cider brandy stills, with an orchard walk and tasting.

An ancient clapper bridge of massive stone slabs stepping across the River Barle in a wooded Exmoor valley.

A tall triangular obelisk on the Blackdown Hills escarpment above Wellington, the world's tallest such column, honouring the Duke of Wellington.

Open heather common on Exmoor above Winsford, grazed by wild ponies and studded with Bronze Age barrows.

Two-arched medieval packhorse bridge over the River Avill on the edge of Dunster, named after the gallows that once stood nearby.

Late medieval stone townhouse on Glastonbury's High Street with an early Tudor front, now home to finds from the Iron Age lake village nearby.

Stone house of the early 1300s for the Glastonbury Abbey official who ran the fishery on Meare Pool, the last monastic fish house in England.

Broken shaft of a medieval market cross, moved from its first spot in Dunster, where villagers once gathered to trade their butter.

Octagonal timber-framed market hall built in 1609 for Dunster's cloth trade, with a hole in one beam said to be from Civil War cannon fire.

Stone monument of 1720 on Lansdown Hill above Bath, marking where the Royalist commander Sir Bevil Grenville was mortally wounded in the 1643 battle.