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Photo of Castle Cary, a village in Somerset, south west England.

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Castle Cary

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Castle Cary is a small market town built in honey-coloured stone, with an arched market house at its heart and a round 18th-century lock-up — a tiny domed jail once used for drunks — on the corner. Rolling country surrounds it. The station, about 1.5km north, is a useful mainline stop between London and the West Country.

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Photo along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.Highlight

Monarch's Way

Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

0.2 km E · spans 14 counties

Photo along the Macmillan Way, a 290-mile long-distance path running from Boston to Abbotsbury, England.Highlight

Macmillan Way

Long-distance path

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

0.2 km NE · spans 10 counties

Photo of Bruton, a village in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Bruton

Village

Handsome former wool town on the River Brue, with a packhorse bridge, a hilltop dovecote and the Hauser & Wirth art gallery on its edge.

5.4 km NE · Somerset

Photo of The Three Horseshoes (Batcombe), a gastropub in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

The Three Horseshoes (Batcombe)

Gastropub · With rooms near Batcombe

Honey-stone village pub tucked in a Somerset valley, a strong recent climber on the list.

8.4 km NE

Photo of King Alfred's Tower, a folly near Bruton, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

King Alfred's Tower

Folly near Bruton

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

9.4 km E

Photo of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

National Landscape near Tisbury

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

9.5 km E