Local Places of Interest

Plenty for non-painting partners!

Within walking distance:

• Caen Hill flight of Locks with a café at the top
• Devizes, is a medieval market town (market day Thursday) built around the site of an 11th Century Norman castle. This was destroyed at the end of the English Civil War as it was a Loyalist stronghold but the streets of the town still follow the medieval street plan. The Wiltshire Museum is in Long Street and well worth a visit and there are many cafes, hotels and restaurants in the town.
• Calne is also nearby with an interesting Heritage Quarter and the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum.

Within a 20 mile radius:

• Bowood House and Gardens
• Avebury Stone Circle and Silbury Hill
• Avebury Manor
• Ridgeway Walk
• Wiltshire White Horses
• Lacock National Trust village and Abbey
• Marlborough – interesting and picturesque old market town with good shops and restaurants
• Stonehenge with new visitor center, book in advance online
• Bath city and Abbey
• Kennet Long Barrow
• Silbury Hill