The Best Things to Do Near Ogof, by the Record
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The spa sits inside a grand Wiltshire country house hotel, surrounded by 500 acres of rolling English countryside a short drive from Bath. It's the kind of place where the pace drops the moment you walk in, warm and unfussy despite the very obvious grandeur around it. Vogue put it on their list of the world's 100 best spas, and the setting does most of the heavy lifting before a treatment even begins.
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Dorset Down sheep graze the fields outside while you're inside working through a treatment menu drawn from the estate's own apple orchards and kitchen garden. The spa at The Newt in Somerset sits inside one of England's great country house estates, so the setting does a lot of the talking before anyone lays a hand on you. Vogue named it among the 100 best spas in the world, and the herbal steam rooms and outdoor pools make that feel plausible.