Review and pictures by Rosie Toomer.

The National Trust’s Christmas light display at Stourhead is truly the perfect way to get into the festive spirit.
The 90-minute trail offers sparkling walk-through tunnels, colourful light-up trees, giant baubles, and dancing light displays to music.
Due to the freezing temperatures, the trail was covered in a blanket of settled snow to add to the Christmas magic.
The trail started with an original artefact Stourhead offers all year round, consisting of Roman picture displays.
We walked past the large greenhouse where they grow the vegetables all year round, which was colourfully lit up.
We strolled through the enchanted forest where there was an array of neon Christmas trees, with picture projections on the walls of the surrounding buildings.

Embracing the ambience along the walkway under the multi coloured lit-up trees, enhanced by Christmas music playing with another projection display on the tree trunks.
There were many stalls offering warm beverages, burgers, fries, mac and cheese, donuts, as well as festive stalls with Yorkshire pudding wraps, hot chocolate and mulled wine.
Whilst sitting down to eat, you could acknowledge the wooden statues of various animals, horse, robin, fox, badger including reindeer that were all lit up in the courtyard. Father Christmas also made an appearance interacting with the children.
Further along the trail was a spiritual fire display with choir music in the background. The giant walk-through light tunnel was a perfect place to take pictures too, with the magical light-up ground display also. To our delight, along the trail we came across a stall offering marshmallows on a stick which you could toast on an open fire.

As you start walking down the hill towards the lake, you can see the Roman buildings, including Temple of Apollo , Temple of Flora and the Pantheon, lit up in fluorescent blues and purples.
To add the magical atmosphere, the trees were dusted in snow and the lake was frozen over, with a neon white ‘Stourhead’ sign in the middle.
Towards the end of the trail you get to explore inside the amazing cathedral, offering fundraising stalls filled with arts and crafts.
We will definitely visit again next year.