The Dewey Museum offers a fascinating insight into local history and contains a wealth of information on a range of topics. The collection contains many historic artefacts that have been collected over a period of some centuries. There...

Stourhead is owned and operated by the National Trust and represents one of the most prestigious mansion houses and parkland estates in the region. The house was begun in 1721 by Colen Campbell and contains furniture made by Chippendale...

Black Swan Arts is a dynamic venue for contemporary arts and crafts. There are two galleries dedicated to an ambitious programme of exhibitions sharing high quality innovative work. The nationally recognised craft shop stocks glass, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, woods and...

Frome Museum is housed in the former Literary Institution building. The exhibits feature local industries, the most prominent being Singer’s Art Metal Works, famed for their bronze castings of statues such as Justice of the Ole Bailey and Boadica, both...

Visitors to the village of Mere in Wiltshire are sometimes surprised by the scale of the ancient fortification of Mere Castle that dominates the community. The top of the battlements can be reached via a steep climb up hundreds of...

Mere’s historic clock tower can be found in the centre of the village on the High Street. The structure was first erected in 1868 and was built originally to replace a medieval Market House that had fallen into disrepair. It...

Founded in 1970, the Mere Museum is housed in a beautiful historic house that dates from 1839. Starting as a small and modest collection, the museum now proudly houses over six thousand pieces covering a variety of topics....

The moated castle at Nunney is a striking and magnificent part of the local Somerset countryside. The property is under the administration of English Heritage and has been extremely well preserved. Sir John de la Mere, a local...

The small village of Kingston Deverill is tucked away within the folds of the beautiful Deverill’s in Wiltshire and towards one end of the village can be found the equally beautiful parish church of St Mary’s. There is a record...

St Michael the Archangel Church dominates the skyline of the pretty Wiltshire village of Mere. The earliest parts of this magnificent church date from the 13th Century with various aspects added to throughout the next century. In the 15th Century,...

The United Reformed Church in the Wiltshire village of Mere is a large grey and somewhat austere looking building. The church was built around 1700 by non-conformist Presbyterians who wished to worship God along less tradition lines than those practiced...

The picturesque village of Mere in Wiltshire seems a million miles away from global conflict, but even in this quiet corner of Great Britain men from the community went to war. The stark and simple stone war memorial takes pride...