| On the B3130 Bristol road An attractive stone manor house, dating back to the 14th century. The property was donated to the National Trust in part-payment of death duties.However, the Elton family still own the surrounding estates and remain resident, as they have since 1709. The Eltons were a prominent Bristol family whose wealth came, in part, from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Houses a collection of Nailsea glass and beautiful Georgian terraced gardens. more information |
| Just outside Wraxall Tyntesfield, a spectacular Victorian Gothic-Revival country house, created by William Gibbs who bought the original Regency-Gothic house in 1843 and remodelled it as a Gothic-Revival extravaganza. 500 acres of land including farmland, woodlands, formal gardens and a walled kitchen garden. The National Trust's project to restore Tyntesfield is only at its early stages. more information |