National Trust - King Alfred's Tower

I'm assuming this is sometimes open so you can go inside and maybe climb to the top? It wasn't today, but as you can see from the pictures, it's pretty spectacular. Was amazed by the sheer size and random placing!
There's a good free car park, maybe 10 mins walk to the tower. No other facilities. Definitely worth visiting.

Gorgeous surroundings with beautiful views. The staircase is hard work to climb to the top of 205 stairs, but the views are so worth it

At National Trust property. This
160 ft brick & stone triangular tower on the top of the hill, was built about 250 yrs ago on the Stourhead Estate.
This commemorates where King Alfred raised his standard ( in theory) in the 880s. Hollow inside, one of the inside corner towers houses 206 steps to the roof.
Parking nearby on the road. No toilets.

Fantastic location and a very reasonable £6 to go up. Definitely worth doing if you’re in the area

Really excellent walk! Nice wide clear, level tracks with a good number of options. Lots of signs dotted around with very interesting facts about the woodland.

I love walking here and would think this is excellent for a horse ride!

Wow what an amazing monument, very impressive well worth a visit 😃 would be amazing in summer with a picnic 🧺.

A fantastic location with amazing views looking over the counties of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. Such a pleasure to go up and take a look at the view. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is around the area. Not only that, but the grounds are good too. Perfect for walks with or without a dog, being a very peaceful setting with lots of wildlife and birdsong. If you’re in the area, it’s worth a visit!

Very polite gentleman at the door welcoming us to the tower. A very pleasant walk and climb with excellent views from the top!

What a gorgeous castle remind me of Disney princess Rapunzel’s castle. Definitely worth a day trip, it’s 2 and half hours from London. The drive towards the castle was also very pleasant, you can see the castle from quite far away (49-metre-high (161 ft). It gives me goosebumps thinking that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Anglo-Saxons here in 878 before the Battle of Edington.

The only disappointment was we couldn’t able to go inside the castle because we visited on Friday and the castle is open only weekends. So visit on Saturday and Sunday between 11:00am -15:00pm to avoid disappointment.

Plenty of space for car park and a lovely ice-cream caravan on entrance. Would definitely recommend!!!!

Great place to take the dog for a walk, great views and really quiet.

Stunning building of epic proportions in the woods. Had a very friendly and enthusiastic guy on the welcome desk when we visited. Fit-ish people should not be worried by the climb. No handrails though, and it gets quite dark in spots on the stairs. Great views from the top.

The place where the meeting of the local King's had to discuss the viking problem. King Alfred the wessex King and first true future King of the whole of the new idea of England called all together at this area to discuss what should be done.
The tower is a monument to that time and climbing the spiral stone staircase within will give you time to think about how different things were more than 1000 yrs ago! If your scared of heights don't look over the edge but the view from the top is well worth the effort.
Parking is free and sufficient on weekends even.
There are gravel tracks to explore on foot all through the forest however if you want to cycle or horse ride you will need a permit for about £10 per year.

(Photos and video taken about 3 years ago but nothing has changed there!)

Only own certain times of the year it's free to national trust members and I think it was around £7 if you are not a member. Lovely place to walk the dogs and even somewhere to have a drink.

Very interesting place to visit, and the car park is free, although seems quite small. There is plenty of space to walk dogs and explore the woods, and the tower is great to look at and learn about the history. Well worth a visit, but definitely recommend wearing boots and coming on a nice day!

Well worth the time to visit. Quite a climb though we did keep up a fair pace and the views are breathtaking. Was slightly more challenging on the way down due to the lack of light obscuring the steps slightly. As ever the staff are fantastic and answered any questions we had.

Lovely trails and beautiful views

An absolutely beautiful place to visit. I also recommend looking for the coffee van nearby.

King Alfred’s Tower…

A very strange structure situated outside of Bruton. It was brain boggling to try and figure out the use of this building as it strangely has no windows considering it stands very tall. On further research it is a folly built in the 18th century.

I would say this is worth a visit if you’re around the area at the time as it is extremely fascinating.

Cheers for reading! - Nathan

Very beautiful place. Little coffee van by the fre car park. One of the best places to visit due to the vast amount of walking and hiking available. Bring wellies, all times of the year!

We visited this folly on our last day of our holiday, after passing it at least twice each day of our stay and being able to see it from miles in any direction. Although this is a folly, it looks capable of surviving a siege and is very impressive up close. I would recommend seeing it from different angles due to its odd shape and ability to look like different buildings all built together. There is a dedicated car park across the road and off road parking very close to the tower that is often used by locals to walk their dogs. The tower is set in a woodland that is also worth a visit.