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Lacock Abbey, village and the Fox Talbot museum in Wiltshire is owned by the National Trust.
The village is unspoilt and attracts many visitors. The 13th century Abbey was founded by the Countess of Salisbury and established as a nunnery. After the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII it became a private country home. In the 1700s the estate came into the hands of the Talbot family until 1944 when the estate and village was given to the National Trust by the last surviving member of the family.

Probably the most famous Talbot was William Henry Fox Talbot, pioneer of Victorian photography, who created the earliest surviving photographic negative in 1835, taken of a small window in the Abbey's South Gallery. A photography museum in his name commemorates him. It tells the story of the birth of photography with objects and technology from the early years of photography, and hosts changing photography exhibitions in the Upper Gallery. This year's exhibition is the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Photographer of the Year and runs until February 2022.

(Info; National Trust and Wiki)