Longleat
Longleat is a stately home about 4 miles west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: stately home in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Longleat House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Longleat Safari and Adventure Park and Longleat Woods.
Longleat Safari and Adventure Park
Zoo
Photo: Andy Potter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longleat Safari and Adventure Park in Longleat, Wiltshire, England, was opened in 1966 as the world's first drive-through safari park outside Africa. It is in the grounds of Longleat House, the home of the 8th Marquess of Bath. Longleat Safari and Adventure Park is situated 3,600 feet northeast of Longleat.
Longleat Woods
Forest
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longleat Woods is a 249.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Frome in Somerset, notified in 1972. This site includes the Ashen Copse Nature Conservation Review site.
Church of St John the Baptist, Horningsham
Church
Photo: mym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist, Horningsham is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Longleat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maiden Bradley and Marston Bigot Park.
Maiden Bradley
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maiden Bradley is a village in south-west Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles south-west of Warminster and bordering the county of Somerset. The B3092 road between Frome and Mere forms the village street. Maiden Bradley is situated 2½ miles south of Longleat.
Marston Bigot Park
Locality
Photo: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marston Bigot Park encompasses approximately 222 hectares and includes Marston House, Marston Pond and the remains of the medieval shrunken village of Lower Marston. Marston Bigot Park is situated 3½ miles west of Longleat.
Berkley
Hamlet
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berkley is a dispersed settlement and civil parish in Somerset, England. According to the 2011 census the parish had a population of 344. It lies on the north-east edge of the town of Frome, St Mary's church being about 2+1⁄4 miles from the centre of Frome. Berkley is situated 4 miles north of Longleat.
Longleat
- Categories: stately home, prodigy house, English country house, castle, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Horningsham, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.18576° or 51° 11′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.27446° or 2° 16′ 28″ westElevation
371 feet (113 metres)Open location code
9C3V5PPG+86OpenStreetMap ID
way 129127769OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Longleat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لونغ ليت”
- Armenian: “Լոնգլիթ”
- Basque: “Longleat”
- Catalan: “Palau de Longleat”
- Cebuano: “Longleat”
- Chinese: “朗利特”
- Chinese: “朗利特莊園”
- French: “Longleat”
- German: “Longleat House”
- Hebrew: “לונגליט”
- Italian: “Longleat House”
- Japanese: “ロングリート”
- Macedonian: “Лонглит”
- Persian: “لانگلیت”
- Polish: “Longleat House”
- Portuguese: “Longleat House”
- Russian: “Лонглит”
- Slovenian: “Longleat”
- Spanish: “Longleat House”
- Spanish: “Longleat”
- Swedish: “Longleat House”
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