Bishops Waltham Palace, (EH)

Parking; picnics welcome in grounds.

Disabled parking 30m from entrance; loose gravel surface; disabled parking on site during opening hours. Buildings and grounds: one step at entrance access via side door on request. Furnished ground floor of farmhouse accessible to wheelchair users external wide steps with handrail to upper floor exhibition, but internal stairs are narrow and winding. Most of ruins and grounds are also accessible on impacted gravel paths and smooth grass, though a pusher is necessary seats provided in farmhouse and grounds. There are WC's across the (busy) road, and purpose-built disabled toilets in public car park 200m away.

This medieval seat of the Bishops of Winchester once stood in an enormous park. There are still wooded grounds surrounding the mainly 12th and 14th century remains. They include the Great Hall and three-storey tower, as well as the moat which once surrounded the palace. The ground floor of the Dower House is furnished as a 19th century farmhouse, with an exhibition on the powerful Winchester Bishops on the first floor.