Wiltshire Attractions

Bush Farm Bison Centre

Bison, elk and red deer in an attractive south Wiltshire farm with lakes and 30 acres of old oak woodlands’.  Home produced and naturally reared meat for sale at Farm shop or through mail order

West Knoyle  BA12 6AE Tel: 01747830263  Email

Caen Hill

The Caen Hill flight of 16 locks on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Devizes opened in December 1810.  The flight provided the final link in the 87-mile route of the Kennet & Avon Canal from Reading to Bath. The Caen Hill Locks are part of a longer flight of 29 locks, climbing a very steep hill in Devizes. 

Devizes Tel: 01722 335398

Crofton Beam Engines

Crofton Pumping Station houses two Cornish Beam Engines, the 1812 Boulton & Watt and the 1845 Harvey of Hayle.  These engines have been restored and the 1812 engine is the oldest beam engine in the world, still in its original building and still doing its original job of pumping water to the summit level of the Kennet & Avon Canal. Both engines are steamed from a hand stoked, coal fired Lancashire boiler.  The separate brick chimney has been restored (from 46 feet) to its original height of 82 feet

Gt Bedwyn, Marlborough,  SN8 3DW   Tel 01672 870300   Email

Farmer Giles Farmstead

See animals in their natural habitat. See how farming was done in times past and the way it’s done now.

Fun Outside:  Bottle feed the lambs, Hand milk our pet jersey cow , Groom the donkeys, See our ponies, rare breeds and wildlife, go for a tractor and trailer ride,  Enjoy the lakeside and tranquil beech walk. Play in the adventure play ground, Have a picnic in the scenic picnic area, Stroll through the vineyard.

Fun inside: Milking parlour, Cuddle rabbits, guinea pigs and piglets in ’pets corner’, browse through the  bygones exhibition.  Bouncy castle, straw bailstack,  miniature tractor circuit.  Farm shop Restaurant & bar

Teffont Salisbury SP3 5QY Tel: 01722716338   Email

Old Sarum 

Built around 500BC by the Iron Age peoples. Old Sarum is the former site of the first cathedral and ancient city of Salisbury. A prehistoric hillfort in origin, Old Sarum was occupied by the Romans, the Saxons, and eventually the Norman  who made it into one of their major strongholds with a motte-and-bailey castle at its center. Old Sarum eventually grew into one of the most dramtic settlements in  medieval England as castle, cathedral and Bishop’s palace

Castle Road Salisbury SP1 3SD  Tel: 01722 335398

Roves Farm Visitor Centre

Claims to have the worlds biggest living willow maze, with its everlasting Willennium Dome! Designed by Adrian Fisher Mazes Ltd, the world’s leading designers of mazes, it covers a total area of 7,250 square metres.  From the sky it is an artistic image of a farm scene with barn, fields, sun and sky

Sevenhampton, Nr Highworth, Swindon, SN6 7QG  Tel 01793 763939

Stonehenge

Stonehenge was begun around 3000 BC, in a landscape already rich in funerary and ceremonial monuments, and was thereafter expanded and remodelled for more than a thousand years.

Amesbury, SP4 7DE  Tel: 01980624715

Wadworth Brewery

Tours of the brewery

Northgate Brewery, Devizes, SN10 1JW Tel: 01380723361

Wilton Windmill

Built in 1821 as a five floor brick tower mill with round house. The need for a windmill was felt because the Kennet and Avon Canal had canalised the waters of the River Bedwyn thereby taking away the power needed to drive several water mills in the vicinity of Bedwyn

Tel: 01672 870427