NATIONAL TRUST:

Lyte’s Cary Manor – Intimate manor house with Arts and Crafts-style garden ( 10 Miles from Corton Denham)

Montacute House – A masterpiece of Elizabethan Renaissance architecture and design (12 Miles from Corton Denham)

Stourhead – Palladian House and world-famous landscape garden (19 Miles from Corton Denham)

Barrington Court – Tudor Manor House dating from 1538 beautifully restored with farm buildings, flowers and orchards ( 20 Miles from Corton Denham)

MUSEUMS:

Hayne’s Motor Museum – the UK’s largest exhibition of historic cars and bikes ( 6 Miles from Corton Denham)

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum – Europe’s largest Naval aviation collection (6 Miles from Corton Denham)

Sherborne Museum – the history and life of Sherborne and its environs

OTHER:

Sherborne Abbey – dating from AD 705 and considered by some to be the finest building in Dorset

Sherborne Old Castle – a romantic 12th Century ruin (English Heritage)

Sherborne New Castle – built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594