Open every day 11.00am - 10.00pm Indoors, Junior sessions. Take the A429 towards Cirencester, over the M4, then left after old airfield. Signposted.
Tel. 01666 838600
Provides karting, skid control training and 4x4 off-road driving. Also hosts special days for many classic car clubs. Check local press, the yourguide Events page or Castle Combe Events for details of current events.
Tel.01249 783010
Signposted from A420, Chippenham - Bristol.
Based on an Elizabethan house dating from 1582, restyled by "Capability" Brown and standing in Brown's parkland, landscaped gardens. Corsham Court houses a magnificent collection of 16th and 17th century Italian and Flemish paintings, rare Italian primitives and stone inlaid furniture.
You are free to wander at will through a collection including works by Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Rubens and Reynolds.
The house has been used as a setting for several cinema and TV films.
Open Daily, excepting Mondays and December. Check times. Tel. 01249 701610. On A4 Chippenham - Bath road, (4 miles)
Sheldon Manor is Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house with a 13th century porch and a 15th century chapel. Gardens with ancient yews, a mulberry tree and roses
Opening Hours:- Sunday, Thursday and Bank Holidays from Easter Sunday to October 2.00 - 6.00pm Admission:- Adults: £4.50 Children under 12 free. Tel.01249 653120 for more details. Sheldon Manor is on the left of the A420 Chippenham - Bristol road. First left after the Bumpers farm roundabout.
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Castle Combe was once voted England's most beautiful village, take a look for yourself. Castle Combe is on the left of the A420 Chippenham - Bristol road. |
No visit to Wiltshire would be complete without going to see a white horse or seven. Yes seven. Once long, long ago some-one decided to dig out a patch of steep hillside in the shape of a horse and let the chalk show through. Like a lot of good ideas, it sort of caught on! Visit the White Horses
Brokerswood Woodland Park covers eighty acres of historic broad leaved woodland. During the summer guided walks are offered during the day and evening, followed by either lunch or supper. Or go your own way. There are nature trails, a lake with wild fowl, coarse fishing and picnic areas. Purpose built barbeques are available.
Also in the park is the Smokey Oak Railway. Chalet accommodation, together with a caravan and camping site are available for those who wish to stay.
Contact the Administration Office on 01373 822238 for further details.
Brokerswood is between the A361 Trowbridge - Frome and A36 Bath - Warminster roads. From Chippenham take the A350 south, turn right at Yarnbrook, then left.
A small informal museum containing over 100 exhibits. Ranging from a tiny 1931 Singer of just 847cc to a 8200cc Cadillac Sedan De-Ville. Open all year but not Fridays or Saturdays. 11am - 5pm (4pm in winter)
See the Museum website at www.atwellwilson.org.uk
The museum is off the A4 Calne to Marlborough road. Map
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2006 marks the 10th anniversary of the
decision to create Abbey House Gardens by the owners Ian & Barbara
Pollard. The new Season will see a host of celebratory events and a
book. The admission rates for 2006 will be £5.50 for Adults, £5.00
Concessions, £2.00 Children. Family ticket for 2 adults with 2
children £13.00. Season tickets available. Open daily 21st March to 21st October between 11.00am - 6.00pm . The Abbey House Malmesbury, Wiltshire SN16 9AS Tel.01666 822212 Email: info@abbeyhousegardens.co.uk Follow signs to the long stay car park on the north side of the town and climb the steps towards the abbey. |
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Just thirty miles from Chippenham, Stonehenge is a World
Heritage Site and should not be missed. Building started over
5,000 years ago and took some 1,500 years. Stand and gaze at
stones that were pulled overland by men for over 219 miles.
After you've soaked it all in you may still not believe
it. Opening times vary with the season but always include 9.30am - 4.00pm. Tel.01980 624715. Closed 24-26 December & 1 January. The best route to Stonehenge is via Devizes A324, then Tilshead A360 An English Heritage site.  |
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This is the only working windmill in Wiltshire. Built in 1821 after the pumps providing water for the Kennet & Avon canal had lowered the river levels so that watermills were no longer effective. The mill fell into disuse with the coming of the steam age, but was restored in the early seventies. Open Sundays & Bank Holidays, from 2.00 - 5.00pm parties at other times by arrangement. Off the A4 between Marlborough and Froxfield, take the turn for Burbage and follow the signs.
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Here's the culprit! (see above) built to take water for the canal they also fell into disuse once the railway had taken the water traffic away. In steam bank Holidays and the last weekends of June & July check with The Warden Tel.01672 870300 Admission charge.Well sign posted. Directions as above. If you get as far as East Grafton you have passed both of these places!
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Not immediately as impressive as Stonehenge, Avebury is a much
larger site yet with a more intimate feel to it. The village has
grown in among the stones. Indeed many can be found broken
down and embedded into the wall of buildings. Take a walk around
the great ditch and up on the top among the stones themselves.
Visit the Museum and the Church, part Anglo Saxon, part
Norman, part 1812. For the really energetic, Silbury Hill, the largest man made mound in Europe, lies only a mile to the South. Avebury is a mile off the A4 Chippenham to Marlborough road. Also a World Heritage Site Avebury is in the care of The National Trust. |
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