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Attractions near Bentley
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Ragley Hall
(7 Miles)*
Ragley is the Family home of the 9th Marquess and Marchioness of Hertford, seat of the Conway-Seymour family. Designed in 1680 by Robert Hooke. |
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Transport Museum Wythall
(7 Miles)*
The Transport Museum, Wythall was founded in 1977 and its three large halls house a broad collection of around 100 buses, coaches, fire engines and battery-electric vehicles from all parts of the Midlands and beyond. |
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Spetchley Park Gardens
(9 Miles)*
The Gardens at Spetchley are amongst the finest in the country. Set in lovely countryside 3 miles east of Worcester on the A422 they extend over 30 acres. |
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Harvington Hall
(9 Miles)*
The moated island was made about 1260 and parts of the Hall are medieval, but most of it was built by Humphrey Pakington about 1580. |
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Stone House Cottage Gardens
(10 Miles)*
Stone House Cottage Gardens is a one acre walled plantsman's garden with towers. A huge range of unusual plants grown - many for sale in the adjoining nursery. Climbing plants are a speciality. |
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Worcestershire County Museum
(11 Miles)*
Hartlebury Castle has been home to the Bishops of Worcester for over a thousand years. |
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Hagley Hall
(11 Miles)*
Hagley Hall and Park are among the supreme achievements of eighteenth-century English architecture and landscape gardening. |
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Mary Arden's House And Countryside Museum
(11 Miles)*
The farmhouse at Wilmcote, just three miles outside Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare's mother, is now a countryside museum; devoted to showing country life from Tudor times to the present day. |
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Worcester Racecourse
(11 Miles)*
National Hunt racing at one of Britain's oldest racecourses, where racing has been taking place on the banks of the River Severn since 1718. |
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Worcester Cathedral
(11 Miles)*
Worcester Cathedral is England's loveliest cathedral, with Royal tombs, medieval cloisters, an ancient crypt and Chapter House, and magnificent Victorian stained glass. |
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Barber Institute of Fine Arts
(12 Miles)*
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has the most outstanding collection of works of art assembled in Britain in the twentieth century and is one of the city of Birmingham's greatest cultural attractions. |
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The Elgar Birthplace Museum
(12 Miles)*
The Cottage in which Elgar was born on 2nd June 1857 is in the heart of the countryside he loved, near the Teme valley and facing the Malvern Hills. |
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Anne Hathaway's Cottage
(13 Miles)*
The most romantic of all the Shakespearean properties, is Anne Hathaway's Cottage, which lies in the beautiful hamlet of Shottery, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses
(13 Miles)*
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens were opened in 1832. They were designed by JC Loudon, a leading garden planner, horticultural journalist and publisher. |
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Stratford on Avon Racecourse
(13 Miles)*
Steeplechasing has taken place at Stratford Racecourse since 1755. Nowadays, we have eighteen meetings a year, between March and November. |
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