King Alfred Tower car park is a 3 mile drive from Stourhead. To get there by car please turn right out of the main Stourhead car park and then left towards Frome on the B3092. The tower is clearly signed from this road.
Parking: There is a small car park a short walk from King Alfred's Tower
Explore the wider countryside around Alfred’s Tower including an Iron Age hillfort and ancient woodland. Listen to the wide variety of birds and creatures that call this place home.
Stay in the grounds of the Lytes Cary estate in this pretty Victorian cottage.
About Alfred's Tower
This triangular tower, two miles north-west of Stourhead garden, was designed by Henry Flitcroft for Stourhead's second owner, Sir Henry Hoare II. The Tower is named after King Alfred who raised his standard here in 870. The tower commemorates the accession of George III in 1760 and the end of the Seven Years' War.