the Year Award in 1998, and the Little Treasure of Britain Award in the 2017 Group Travel Awards. Arts and filming Iford Manor has been used for filming on a number of occasions. Most recently it was used as a key location for The Secret Garden (2020) and in Sanditon (ITV 2019). In 2008 the gardens and the Cloisters were used as the venue for the wedding sequence in Episode 1 of the second series of the BBC's Mistresses. Regular concerts take place at weekends in the garden at no extra charge for garden visitors, and from 2021 a new season of arts events will take place. From 1983 until 2018, the Iford Arts Festival held a three-month season of opera, jazz and other concerts in the gardens, making use of the Cloisters and the Casita as performance spaces. With urgent repair work needed to the Cloisters following subsidence, and the festival having outgrown the relatively small venue, the festival was moved to nearby Belcombe Court from 2019. Iford Manor SSSI The roof spaces of Iford Mill Barn are used as a summer breeding roost by greater horseshoe bats, one of only 14 known roosts for this species in England. This is the second largest of the known English breeding roosts, with over 250 individuals recorded each summer. Because of this, the buildings and a small area of land surrounding them, , were notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1996. Although the manor itself is in Wiltshire, both bat breeding sites are in Bath and Northeast Somerset, and so fall within English Nature's Avon Area of Search. The SSSI includes an orchard, where Daubenton's bat and Noctule bat roost. Gallery Sources External links Iford Manor entry from The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses, archived in 2012 English Nature (SSSI information) Country houses in Wiltshire Gardens by Harold Peto Georgian architecture in Wiltshire Grade I listed parks and gardens in Wiltshire Grade II* listed buildings in Wiltshire Grade II* listed houses Manor houses in England Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1996 Tourist attractions in Wiltshire