Longleat house is an Elizabethan stately home and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath. It is located near the towns of Warminster and Westbury in Somerset, England, and was built by Sir John Thynne on the site of a priory in 1567. The house was mainly designed by Robert Smythson who designed a number of notable houses such as Harwick Hall and Wollaton Hall. The house was originally surrounded by renaissance gardens, however they were later replaced by landscape gardens designed by Capability Brown. Longleat also boasts the first safari park outside of Africa, which opened in 1966.
