The National Trust’s Palladian house and gardens are preparing to wow visitors for another year with the return of the glittering light trail between Friday, November 25, 2022, and Sunday, January 1, ...

It all began in 1910 when a star struck Lady Alda Hoare of Stourhead wrote to the celebrated author Thomas Hardy for an autographed copy of 'Far from the Madding Crowd'. Thomas Hardy was already a ...

The tour starts at the top garden walking from the house travelling into darker, wooded areas with a deeper shade of green. Almost in to a tunnel, passing through the gates you can almost get a ...

The world-famous landscape at Stourhead will be covered in a blaze of twinkling illuminations once more as the annual light trail comes to the gardens from Friday, November 25, 2022, until Sunday, ...

There is always a sense of expectation when you take first-time visitors to Stourhead and down the winding path towards the spot where they stop and stare in sheer wonder, past the Palladian Bridge ...

Distance 3 miles (4.8km) Classification Easy Duration 1 hour 30 minutes Begins Stourhead visitor centre car park OS grid reference ST779340 Walk in a nutshell An iron age hill fort, birdlife in the ...

The grotto at Stourhead is next to the lake and has suffered 'drainage issues' over the past few years Restoration work on an 18th century grotto at a National Trust property is currently under way.

A rare painting has returned to its old home after it was sold 140 years ago. Stately home Stourhead, near Warminster, had Penelope and Euriclea by Angelica Kauffman for more than a century, until ...