Lydiard Park & House
(½ mile – walking distance)
Lydiard Park is a beautiful 260 acre 18th Century parkland within ½ mile of Hook Farm
Cottages and has undergone
a £5 million restoration project. Important historic features of the original 18th
Century landscape have been reinstated, including the lost lake and ornamental fruit and flower garden. The park
is also the setting to one of the country's most beautiful parish churches, St Mary's Church.
www.lydiardpark.org.uk
Oxford
(1 hour drive)
Oxford is home to the world famous university, and most of the colleges and university buildings are located in
the centre of Oxford, within easy walking distance of each other. Oxford also offers an extensive range of
shops, restaurants, historic buildings and
museums.
www.oxfordcity.co.uk
The Cotswolds (30 minute drive to the south Cotswolds)
The Cotswolds are well-known for gentle hillsides (‘wolds’), sleepy villages and for being so ‘typically English’.
There are famous cities such as Bath, well-known beautiful towns like Cheltenham and hundreds of delightful villages such
as Stow-On-The Wold, Moreton-In-Marsh, Burford, Bilbury and Castle Combe. The Cotswolds is designated 'An Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty' and is the largest in the UK stretching from Chipping Campden, in the north, to Bath in the South (78 miles),
covering an area of 2038 sq. kms (790 sq. miles).
www.cotswoldsaonb.com
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City of Bath
(1 hour drive)
The city of Bath is a unique city; its hot springs, Roman Baths, splendid Abbey and Georgian stone crescents
have attracted visitors for centuries. Set in rolling Somerset countryside, just an hour’s drive from Hook
Farm Cottages, it is a beautiful and unforgettable place to visit. The city also boasts a remarkable range
of museums and is a real shopper’s paradise, renowned for its range of independent shops.
visitbath.co.uk
Stonehenge
(1½ hour drive)
The great and ancient stone circle of Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world.
What visitors see today are the substantial remnants of the last in a sequence of such monuments
erected between circa 3000BC and 1600BC. The surrounding landscape is also fascinating.
It contains huge prehistoric monuments, stretching over several kilometres like the Avenue and the
Cursus, massive earthwork enclosures like Durrington Walls and the North Kite, and hundreds of burial mounds.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehenge
Avebury
(30 minute drive)
One of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe is spread over a vast area at Avebury – the great
stone circle, encompassing part of the village of Avebury, is enclosed by a ditch and external bank and
approached by an avenue of stones. The site museum, including an exhibition in the 17th-century
thatched threshing barn, presents the archaeological story.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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