What's around us past and present.

Stand in the footsteps of King Alfred the Great who founded the Abbey in 888AD. The museum vividly brings to life the story of the Abbey and it's inhabitants. The remains of the Abbey are set in a beautiful walled garden.

The aim of the project was and still is, to restore the dilapidated old Somerset and Dorset Railway Station, to look as it was before closure in the nineteen fifties.

One of Dorset's special churches, built in 1848/49 and designed by R.C. Carpenter in a very sophisticated and archaeologically knowledgable way.

The village of Trent, formerly in Somerset, abounds in good architecture, Medieval, Tudor and later, with plenty of well established trees as a background. There are few churches in Dorset with so much to enjoy.

St Andrew’s is a delightful small Norman church with an apse at its east end, unaltered in its plan since the early 12th century. Built of local stone and flint, it has a tiny weatherboarded bell turret.

A model ecclesoiological church designed in 1847 by George Alexander. The restored dramatic painted interior is the most important surviving scheme by Owen Jones the pioneer of High Victorian design. Superrb pulpit, minton floor tiles in the chancel and a brilliant east window.