Photogenic locations

[geoffr]

Simple, please suggest photogenic locations or events in your area. Obviously that implies giving enough information to actually find said location or event. Also include such things as National Trust/National Trust for Scotland, English, Welsh or Scottish Heritage etc. A web address would also be useful.

I’ll start off with Parham House, Storrington, Pulborough RH20 4HS. A privately owned stately house with a walled garden. There is a Wendy house built into the garden wall. It is also a RHS  Partner Garden some months of the year. www.parhaminsussex.co.uk

[gray1720]

Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire has lots of charming nooks and crannies, and a small but perfectly formed photography museum, commemorating some geezer who did something important. The village itself is largely owned by the National Trust and needs only a few consumptive peasants for that full Victorian atmosphere.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacock_Abbey

And. Errr... I pretty much live in Oxford. It has manureloads of beautiful buildings that you'll struggle to photograph for tourists.

[dorsetmike]

Mottesfont Abbey, National Trust, near Romsey Hants, as well as the abbey itself there are walled gardens home to the National old Rose collection, the old roses bloom for only about 3 weeks in June but well worth seeing - and smelling!

The "Isle of Purbeck" not really an island but plenty to see, ruins of Corfe Castle, and its adjacent vilage mostly built of local stone, as are other villages in the area.

The South West coast path starts on the south side of Poole Harbour entrance and follows the coast of Dorset, then south Devon, Cornwall, north Devon and to Minehead in Somerset, 630 miles so plenty to choose from.

[nickr]

Kenilworth Castle. Probably famous enough not to need too much extra identification... across the road from it, the thatched cottages of Little Virginia.

[daves]

Moving further west, Abbotsbury is ridiculously photogenic, with the Swannery and Sub Tropical Gardens well worth a visit. If you have the time go up the hill to St Catherine's Chapel which can be somewhat spooky, at least I found it spooky.

[MJB]

Imber Village on Salisbury Plain. It's one of those deserted villages on MOD ranges and is open to the public a few times a year and every summer there is the Imber Bus day, where a fleet of vintage Routemaster buses operate a service from Warminster railway station to Imber and other normally inaccessible spots on the SPTA. There's a great deal of the army ranges that are open to the public and it's a great spot for wildlife photography, especially for some of Britain's rarest butterflies. Staying on Salisbury Plain there a lot of neolithic sites, most notably Avebury, Stonehenge, and Durrington Walls. Salisbury city is very photogenic. There's the church of the virgin Mary, aka Salisbury Cathedral, and the close and Terry Pratchett fans will notice many familiar scenes from the descriptions in his books and local artist Paul Kidby's Discworld artwork. With it's military connections, Wiltshire is home to numerous chalk hillside carvings of military badges. The most famous are the Fovant Badges, but for Antipodean visitors there is the Kiwi at Larkhill and the ANZAC badge at Codford. There is also the Kennet & Avon canal the fantastic Caen Hill locks at Devizes.

[steveandthedogs]

Caernarfon, Bodnant, Dinorwic Quarry, Anglesey coastline [bear in mind Anglesey is full at the moment and they have had to close the bridge.], forget the mountains unless you like crowds, assorted narrow gauge trains, castles if you like that sort of thing,

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