Devizes Travel Guide

 birchy99 Says:  For sure you must take some time and step into the little museum that celebrates the glorious Canal Period of the Industrial Revolution. Here you can learn the history, the engineering, the fun and how to vacation on a narrowboat. Modelers, this is heaven for you as all... 

 leics Says:  I hope the church is open when you visit....unfortunately, it wasn't open when I went.Which is a pity, as it is a very ancient church indeed. Just walking around its exterior made that very clear.Originally built in 1130, the nave rebuilt and chapels added in the... 

 leics Says:  Wadworth's beer is sold all over south-west England, but its brewery visitor centre is in Devizes.And it still delivers its beer around the town by horse-drawn carts...a lovely sight. :-)Brewery tours run twice-daily through the working week, and on summer Sundays. It's... 

 leics Says:  It's a fascinating place, stuffed with prehistoric artefacts including some from Avebury and Stonehenge.I visited years ago, when it was a crowded and somewhat muddled place, with labels in copperplate writing.still absolutely fascinating.It's been renovated and... 

 leics Says:  Devizes has some prime examples of Georgian architecture, especially around the market square. See if you can spot the 'assembly rooms', where all the young ladies and gentlemen would attend regular balls (especially during the regency period...Jane Austen?). It was perhaps... 

 andrewyong Says:  This church dominates the town's skyline as it sits on top of an alleviated ground. Though locked when I was around, it looks old and looks like many English churches with square tops for its tower. 

 andrewyong Says:  Kennet & Avon CanalTake a stroll around town and you will come by a sign that points toward the Wharf. What it is is the canal. You will find boats morroed by the side with white mute swans wading in the water and dogs playing on the banks in the day. 

 birchy99 Says:  Just outside Devizes, to the west, I believe, is a flight of 29 locks on the Avon and Kennett Canal. That is 29 locks in two miles that must be navigated to reach the summit at Devizes. Our friends knew of my fascination of the canals and the narrowboats so they surprised me... 

 birchy99 Says:  I love little bake shops as much as I do butcher shops. Probably even more. Just look at the variety of things you can purchase....pasties, sausage rolls, lardy rolls (wonder what that is), buns, breads, baguettes, etc. A feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. 

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 eminsing Says:  Since i stay here every time i go home then I am not qualified to give an unbiased opinion! However I will say that if like the idea of staying in someones extreamly welcoming home then you will not be disapointed! there are always colourful characters dropping in to see... 

 eminsing Says:  I stayed here for two nights in 2003. The hotel staff were lovely and looked after us very well. Our room was in a cottage at the back of the garden, to reach it you walked over a tiny bridge under which was a stream full of ducks and geease. The hotel is a 3* so expect to... 

 birchy99 Says:  Enough with the snide comments about chips and peas and mash, of which I'm a wee bit guilty of pervaying. We found this pub, restaurant, B&B a few miles outside Devizes toward Bath just off the A4. One couldn't imagine such a nice establishment would be at the end of the... 

 andrewyong Says:  The Black Swan is a small hotel with the pub and restaurant occupying the majority of the building. It fronts the town square so its quite prominent, you will not miss it. Perenially English is the Sunday Roast (beef, lamb or pork) and after visiting Stonhenge, we drove to... 

 birchy99 Says:  Across the square one can't help but notice the huge sign of the bear on a large building. This is "The Bear" Inn and restaurant. I don't think it qualifies as a pub. It has been established as an Inn since 1599. On my way to the loo I encountered a gent who waylayed me and...