England, Wales & Scotland - South West

Wells Cathedral

A Karen Brown Recommendation

The cathedral’s west front is magnificently adorned with 400 statues of saints, angels, and prophets. The interior is lovely and on every hour the Great Clock comes alive as figures of four knights joust and one is unseated. From the cathedral you come to Vicars Close, a cobbled street of tall-chimneyed cottages with little cottage gardens, built over 500 years ago as housing for the clerical community. On the other side of the cathedral regal swans swim lazily in the moat beneath the Bishop’s Palace where at one time they rang a bell when they wanted to be fed—now visitors’ picnics provide easier meals.

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Southwest England

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• The Bath Priory
• Beryl
• The Bridge House Hotel
• Castle Inn Hotel
• Dukes Hotel
• Fosse Farmhouse
• The Lynch Country House
• Meadowland
• The Old Rectory
• Paradise House Hotel
• Plumber Manor
• Priory Steps
• The Queensberry Hotel
• Stock Hill House
• Thornbury Castle
• Charlton House

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