The 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Wessex - Bath, Stonehenge and the Jurassic Coast
Wessex must be unique in having three World Heritage Sites within an hour's drive of each other. The Wessex Heritage Sites 3-day tour will visit the city of Bath with its Roman Baths, Georgian splendour and Britain's only thermal bath where you can enjoy a luxurious thermal experience. Spend a day amongst the enigmatic Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill, their purpose still puzzling after five millennia. Finally to The Jurassic Coast, a truly stunning coastline with rocks recording 185 million years of the Earth's history.
Bath
With its magnificent array of Georgian crescents and squares, mansions and terraced town houses, Bath was the setting for the Jane Austen novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Bath is also world famous for it's Roman Baths. After so much history why not let us arrange a visit to the newly opened Thermae Bath Spa natural thermal waters? Here you can bathe in Britain's only natural thermal waters as the Celts and Romans did over 2000 years ago or enjoy a superb range of luxury Spa treatments.
Wander across beautiful Pulteney Bridge, built in 1770; the Assembly Rooms with the Museum of Costume and the Royal Crescent overlooking Victoria Park, with its botanical gardens.
Ancient Landscapes of Wessex
Stonehenge & Avebury
For five millennia the megalithic standing stones have remained a mystery, standing sentinel over Salisbury Plain. The mystery of why Stonehenge was built is still argued over. What inspired its builders to create this testament to incredible human endeavour?
We'll travel on to Avebury, which defies the imagination; it is gargantuan. Around it lays the largest long barrow, the world's biggest stone circle and the tallest man-made mound at Silbury Hill.
Lyme Regis & The Jurassic Coast
Travel with us to one of Wessex's prettiest locations, the Georgian town of Lyme Regis situated in the heart of England's World Heritage Site, The Jurassic Coast. Tide permitting, you can explore the shoreline walked by Mary Anning "the most famous female fossilist" and search for your own fossils.
Later stroll to the famous Lyme Regis Cobb, and view the steps where in Jane Austen's Persuasion, Louisa Musgrove took her celebrated tumble. It is also here on the Cobb that the film adaptation of John Fowle's French Lieutenants Woman famously featured the iconic image of Meryl Streep gazing seawards.
We can also arrange for you to enjoy a spectacular and exhilarating view of the Jurassic Coast onboard the 11 metre Coastal Explorer. Piloted by UK Sea Safaris, this voyage covers all the spectacular and unique areas of the Dorset heritage coastline. Alternatively we'll journey along the coast road to Abbotsbury and the 15th-century St Catherine's Chapel. From here you can enjoy spectacular views of Chesil Beach, a stunning 18-mile long shingle bank running between West Bay and Portland.
