Built around a natural hot spring almost two millennia ago, the Roman Baths remain one of the best-preserved Roman religious spas anywhere in the world. Walk the same stone pavements Roman bathers once did, gaze into the strange green-gold waters of the Great Bath, and step through a city that later gave its very name — Bath — to the practice itself. The honey-coloured Georgian city surrounding the baths, all elegant crescents and grand terraces, is a beautiful bonus on top.

Few ruins in England carry as much myth as Glastonbury Abbey. Once one of the wealthiest and most powerful monasteries in the country, it was largely destroyed during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century — leaving the atmospheric skeletal arches you'll walk among today. But it's the legends that really capture the imagination: medieval monks claimed to have discovered the graves of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere here in 1191, and the town has long been associated with the mythical Isle of Avalon. Whether you believe the legends or simply love a beautiful ruin, Glastonbury delivers both.

A scenic drive across the mysterious moors takes you to the capital of the area, Princetown. Here you'll see the infamous Dartmoor prison, before driving to a lovely old Inn for a drink and supper. Later, a Local Specialist will regale you with stories and legends about the area.