Wells Cathedral
Church · A cathedral set on a wide green, with a west front carved with some 300 sculpted figures.
Wells
Often called England's smallest city: a medieval cathedral with its famous scissor arches, the moated Bishop's Palace and Vicars' Close, with the Wookey Hole caves two miles out.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 3 h 18 min by train · 3 h 34 min by car
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Time there: 3.5–5.5 h to see all 2 places
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The city takes its name from the springs beside the cathedral, which still feed the moat around the Bishop's Palace.
The cathedral's scissor arches were added in the 14th century to stop the central tower from sinking.
Vicars' Close, built in the 14th century for the cathedral's choir, is often described as the oldest purely residential street in Europe with its original buildings intact.
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