Near a city · The Stately Homes
Houses near Bristol
21 stately homes sit within 40 miles of Bristol. The closest is Tyntesfield, about 5 miles out, and the best-known nearby is Stourhead. Sorted by real distance, not a rough guess.
Map
Every stately home on this list - 21 in total, 10 you can stay overnight in
Tyntesfield
Somerset · 5 mi away
Victorian Gothic Revival mansion built for the Gibbs family, acquired by the Trust in 2002
Dyrham Park
Gloucestershire · 10 mi away
Baroque mansion set in a deer park, built for William Blathwayt
Clevedon Court
Somerset · 11 mi away
14th-century manor house, home of the Elton family for over 250 years
Westwood Manor
Wiltshire · 16 mi away
Small late-medieval manor house with Jacobean plasterwork, near Bradford-on-Avon
The Bishop's Palace, Wells
Somerset · 17 mi away
Medieval palace of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, opened to the public by an independent charitable trust.
Newark Park
Gloucestershire · 17 mi away
Tudor hunting lodge later remodelled, set on an escarpment above the Ozleworth valley
Corsham Court
Wiltshire · 18 mi away
Elizabethan mansion with a noted art collection, home of the Methuen family.
Great Chalfield Manor
Wiltshire · 18 mi away
Late medieval moated manor house, still lived in by the family who restored it
Tredegar House
Newport · 20 mi away
17th-century red-brick mansion, ancestral home of the Morgan family, Lords Tredegar
Lacock Abbey
Wiltshire · 20 mi away
Former nunnery converted into a country house, home of photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot
Longleat House
Wiltshire · 23 mi away
Elizabethan house, seat of the Marquess of Bath, safari park in the grounds
Stourhead
Wiltshire · 27 mi away
Palladian mansion built for the Hoare banking family, overlooking a celebrated landscape garden
Lytes Cary Manor
Somerset · 29 mi away
Medieval and Tudor manor house with a chapel, associated with the Lyte family of herbalists
Dyffryn House
Vale of Glamorgan · 31 mi away
Edwardian mansion set within extensive gardens, near Cardiff
Avebury Manor
Wiltshire · 31 mi away
Tudor manor house redecorated room-by-room in different historical styles for a BBC television project
Coleridge Cottage
Somerset · 32 mi away
Cottage in Nether Stowey where Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
Montacute House
Somerset · 35 mi away
Elizabethan prodigy house built of golden Ham stone, with a long gallery hung with Tudor portraits
Barrington Court
Somerset · 36 mi away
Tudor manor house, one of the earliest sizeable buildings acquired by the National Trust
Philipps House
Wiltshire · 36 mi away
Neoclassical Greek Revival house set in Dinton Park
Stock Gaylard House
Dorset · 38 mi away
Georgian house set within a deer park, privately owned by the Langmead family.
Tretower Court
Powys · 39 mi away
Restored 15th-century courtyard manor house with a recreated medieval garden, sited beside but distinct from the ruined Tretower Castle.
Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), not driving or train time - check the operator's own site for real travel options before you go.