With its Safari Park and other family attractions, there is so much going on at Longleat that it is easy to forget that this is one of the finest examples of high Elizabethan architecture in Britain. Finished in 1580, it is surrounded by landscaped parkland (by that omnipresent English landscape gardener Capability Brown), along with woods and farmland. It is currently the home of the 7th Marquess of Bath, a jolly and colorfully eccentric man who seems still to be living in the Age of Aquarius.
Highlight: Don't miss the lions.
Plan a Visit to Longleat
Inside Longleat House
Animal Babies at Longleat House