Laycock Abbey is a wonderful National Trust property in a delightful village. Could spend all day exploring. NT carpark on edge of village, 150 yards walk. Public carpark in village by Red Lion pub but busy in high season. Village is the location of many films and TV series requiring medieval charm. A lovely day out.

Had a walk around the ground as am a national Trust member. It's great to see the spring flowers just starting to appear. Ground are always well maintained. Staff are always friendly and helpful. A great way to spend an hour or two on a Sunday afternoon

Wednesday 31st January 2024, after visiting the Fox Talbot Mueseum of Photography, My husband and I then visited Lacock Abbey. Lacock Abbey is an amazing building with a mixture of architectural styles, its own medieval cloisters and a Tudor courtyard with a rare example of a country house brewery. It is a very fascinating place; it has also been used on film sets. The cloisters and chapter house were used in the Harry Potter film ‘The Philosophers Stone’. We also looked round the Courtyard and the Second Hand Bookshop, where I purchased a ‘Blind Date’ Book for the bargain price of one pound. We strolled round the grounds and looked at the lovely early spring flowers, at this point the wind had started to get very cold, so we decided to call it a day..

Went on National Lottery open week so free entry. Lovely walk in the village first, all sorts of films have been made there. National Trust own the village as well as the house. Very friendly staff, Abbey is very interesting. Small museum and nice grounds. Good day out

We visited pretty much first thing in the morning and were glad we did. The signposted car park (top tip, follow the brown signs from the road and not your satnav) was pretty much empty. The car park machines were all out of order and so we saw a man in a hut for a parking ticket we then just carried around with us and didn’t even show anyone on the way out. We meandered into the abbey grounds, a quick walk through the botanical garden, in which the glasshouse was closed. We checked out the brewhouse and bakehouse, ropes at the entrances meant we could only peak in, and then after a quick toilet stop decided to head round the back to check out the cloisters. Very interesting to see, albeit pretty worn down when you’re up close, I guess to be expected with the age of it. All of the rooms were roped off, and all looked in differing states of crumbling disrepair. We exited and walked back to the front to enter the house. The great hall aside, which is vast and mostly empty, the rooms are all quite small compared with other NT houses. Walking through you notice how aged everything is. Maybe I’m being picky, but the plaster in most places was cracking, the paint dull, the pictures hung on the rails with a string on a nail and not the usual finesse you get accustomed to seeing at large houses. That being said, it had a really lovely cosy feel to the place. Each room bought you a sense of what it was used for and a different feeling about the design, furniture and decor. There are a few rooms to see on the prescribed route. Of note is the window that Talbot made the first negative photograph of. As the title suggests I would say there are some improvements that would make the whole experience better. Initially there is a map of all the different movie locations which, as people who watch movies would be of interest. Either we just weren’t offered this, or there isn’t one. The portraits, there are some cards in each room indicating who these people are in the portraits, but not all of them. Again, maybe this is something you can access but we weren’t offered? The amount of rooms inaccessible in the cloisters seems a shame. The car park machines have worked at all the other NT places we’ve been to recently, so why not here? Overall we enjoyed our visit but felt we didn’t really know what we were looking at or the significance of anything, this is usually much better at other places. We had a nice, short walk through the grounds and gardens which are lovely. When we left, the car park was full and so was the village. I would say get in as it opens and then get out before the crowds!

Beautiful place to visit and definitely the highlight of our trip to the area. We were very lucky with the sun as the walks around Lacock are also lovely! The National Trust was exactly what we'd hoped for; our architecture, landscape design and history interests were all sated nicely. Plenty of parking there too.

This is a National Trust property which dates back to before 1232. We visited on a wet and windy day, but it didn’t put us off. Unfortunately there were not enough volunteers available to allow visitors to visit all of the Abbey. They do an excellent job and are very knowledgeable. We did see the cloisters which are in remarkable preserved condition with lots of intricate detail. This is a beautiful and interesting building which is worthy of a visit and should be combined with a visit to Laycock Village

We have been 3 times to Lacock, this time we got to see the upstairs rooms which we had not seen before. We had a lovely day. We decided to have a cup of tea, a hot chocolate & 2 black coffees. The coffees were undrinkable so the staff made us 2 new ones, these were also undrinkable the water had an odd scum on the top and they were both weak and odd tasting. We will visit again but we won’t go back to thd cafe.

Visited here for a few hours, cost is £20 to get per in per adult. Interesting history and filming location for Harry Potter films and others makes this an interesting venue for Children who can identify with it. Nice gardens to walk around also and car parking was free in local pub

This national trust site blew us away and way so much more interesting than we anticipated! Aside from the movies that have been filmed here, the abbey was a home and had gorgeous artwork and rooms that have been lovingly restored and preserved. The gardens and grounds are simply beautiful!