Fairwood Lakes Holiday Park - Fun Days Out

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, a World Heritage Site and one of Britain's best-known landmarks. The outer ring of huge sarsen stones, topped with lintels, was raised in the third millennium BC. It sits within a landscape dense with burial mounds and other Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments.

You can walk up to the Stone Circle and take photos, then step into the reconstructed Neolithic houses. Children can have a go at finding out what it takes to move a sarsen stone. The exhibition explains how the builders lived and worked, and includes a Neolithic man brought to life face to face. There's a café for a snack, and plenty of wider landscape to explore on foot.

History fans, families and anyone ticking off an icon will get a lot from it.

Tip: Pre-book your ticket before you travel.

The Roman Baths are well-preserved Roman thermae in the city of Bath. A temple was built on the site in the first decades of Roman Britain, and the bathing complex grew up around the natural hot spring over the following centuries. You can see the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and a museum of finds from Aquae Sulis, including the gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva. Visitors can tour the baths but cannot enter the water.

Audio guides are included with admission, and a costumed character is usually beside the Great Bath to answer questions about life 2,000 years ago. One-hour guided tours are also available, covering the Roman bathing experience, the Great Bath and the Sacred Spring. The Pump Room, a Neoclassical salon, serves food and drink, and there is a gift shop.

Tip: Book tickets in advance on the official website, romanbaths.co.uk, as advance prices are lower and it is the only genuine ticket seller.

Longleat is a Grade I listed stately home near Warminster in Wiltshire, and one of the finest examples of Elizabethan architecture in Britain. It was the first stately home to open to the public. The house sits in 1,000 acres of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown.

The house tour takes in the Elizabethan Great Hall with its minstrels' gallery, the ante-library with a Venetian painting on the ceiling, and the Red Library, which displays many of the 40,000 books in the house. Visitor books signed by royal guests are also on display. Beyond the house, the estate has the first safari park outside Africa and a hedge maze, one of several mazes and labyrinths created by the 7th Marquess of Bath. Longleat has been used as a film location many times.

The Westbury White Horse, also known as the Bratton White Horse, is a chalk hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, about 1.5 miles east of Westbury in Wiltshire. It is the oldest of the county's eight white horses and measures roughly 163 ft tall and 166 ft long.

It sits on Westbury Hill, on the edge of the Bratton Downs, below the Iron Age hillfort of Bratton Castle, and can be seen clearly from Westbury. The horse has been restored several times and is a symbol of both the town and Wiltshire as a whole. Its origins are obscure, and the popular link to King Alfred's victory at Ethandun has no evidence behind it, which makes the story behind the figure part of the interest.

Bath Abbey is a parish church of the Church of England and a former Benedictine monastery. Founded in the 7th century, it was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries and restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the most significant examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country, and is particularly noted for its fan vaulting.

Inside, you can look up at the architecture, read the wall and floor plaques and commemorative stained glass, and find the war memorials. The west front has sculptures of angels climbing two stone ladders, representing Jacob's Ladder. There is a museum in the cellars. It is still an active place of worship, and visitors can join a service or a tour, light a candle or listen to the choirs. It also hosts concerts and lectures.

Tip: Look up at the west front sculptures of angels climbing Jacob's Ladder, then head inside for the fan vaulting.

Stourhead is a National Trust estate on the Wiltshire and Somerset border, with a Palladian mansion and one of the most famous landscape gardens in England. The garden was laid out in the 18th century around a large artificial lake, with classical temples, a grotto, the Palladian Bridge and the Gothic Cottage summerhouse beside the water. Rare and exotic trees add to the setting.

The house, built in the 1720s, holds the Hoare family's art collection and library. The estate also includes the village of Stourton and wider farmland and woodland you can explore. There is an adventure playground, a restaurant, a shop, a plant shop and a pub, so families and garden lovers can easily fill a day. Dogs on short leads are welcome in the garden.

Tip: Parking is by the JustPark app or on-site machines, so download the app before you arrive. National Trust members park free but must register their visit.

The Holburne is the city's first public art gallery, housed in the Grade I listed former Sydney Hotel at the end of Great Pulteney Street. The collection grew from Sir William Holburne's bequest and includes work by Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Ramsay and Zoffany, alongside silver, porcelain, maiolica, miniatures and Roman glass.

Temporary exhibitions, music performances, creative workshops, family events and talks run alongside the permanent displays. There is a bookshop and a café that opens out onto Sydney Gardens, the country's only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens. It suits art lovers, and families can look out for the workshops and drop-in sessions.

Tip: Tickets can be bought online ahead of your visit, and last admissions are half an hour before closing.

Avebury is one of the great marvels of prehistoric Britain. Built and altered during the Neolithic period, the henge survives as a huge circular bank and ditch that encircles part of Avebury village. Inside is the largest stone circle in Britain, originally of about 100 stones, which in turn encloses two smaller stone circles. Together with Stonehenge, it forms a World Heritage Site.

Avebury sits at the centre of a wider ceremonial landscape that includes West Kennet Avenue, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill. Many of these can be reached on foot from the village, so walking between them is a great way to make the most of your visit. The Alexander Keiller Museum displays notable finds from the Avebury monuments and is a good place to start. If you enjoy ancient history, this is a fascinating place to explore.

Tip: Start at the Alexander Keiller Museum to learn about the monuments before you set off. Paths can be uneven and muddy.