Why you need to visit this beautiful National Trust destination!
2 min readJun 17, 2024
Mysty’s takeover.
Today’s blog is about the incredible Stourhead.
Stourhead is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset.
The estate is about 4 km northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed 18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, one of the most famous gardens in the English landscape garden style, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead has been part-owned by the National Trust since 1946.
You may recognise it from the film Pride and Prejudice. The very iconic scene was filmed here:
When Stourhead first opened in the 1740s, a magazine described it as ‘a living work of art’. The world-famous…