Gloucestershire Tourist Guide - Articles

The National Trust is a charity and is completely independent of Government. They rely for income on membership fees, donations and legacies, and revenue raised from our commercial operations. For this reason we give free advertising to them and other charity or 'not for profit' organisation.

They now have 3.4 million members and 43,000 volunteers. More than 12 million people visit their pay for entry properties, while an estimated 50 million visit their open air properties.

They protect and open to the public over 300 historic houses and gardens and 49 industrial monuments and mills.

But it doesn’t stop there. They also look after forests, woods, fens, beaches, farmland, downs, moorland, islands, archaeological remains, castles, nature reserves, villages - for ever, for everyone.

The National Trust has a number of places in Gloucestershire, including:-
* Hidcote Manor Gardens
* Chedworth Roman Villa
* Hailes Abbey
* Snowshill Manor
* Dyrham Park