11 AUG 2000

Next to the Railway Museum in Faringdon Road is The Railway Village House. Here you can see how Victorian railway families lived. It features a gaslight, cooking range, brass bedsteads, and antimacassars.

04 AUG 2000

In the High Street is the (largely redundant) 15th-century St Peter’s Church. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (c. 1475 – 1530) was ordained here in 1498. It now houses a number of attractions, including arts and crafts, a coffee shop, and a Christian bookshop.

10 AUG 1999

In the Medieval Hall Office at 10 Shady Bower is Secrets of Salisbury. This 30-minute AV presentation describes the city’s past and present, as well as taking you on a flying visit to many attractions in the region.

09 AUG 1999

In Long Street you will find Devizes Museum and Art Gallery, which houses a unique collection of prehistoric finds. It also features both history and natural history galleries.

07 AUG 1999

You can take a pleasant walk through Savernake Forest, which is around 26km (16mi) in circumference, at any time of year.

05 AUG 1999

At the Manor House in Potterne is the Fire Defence Museum. Here you will get a first-rate guided tour around an interesting collection of firefighting items previously used in the fire defences of Wiltshire.

03 AUG 1999

Devizes Wharf is home to the Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, which has a range of exhibits on the conception, design, usage, and eventual commercial decline of the Kennet & Avon Canal, along with its subsequent restoration.

05 AUG 1998

The gardens of Stourhead House at Stourton are among the best examples of 18th-century landscape design. Laid out by a rich banker, Henry Hoare I (1677 – 1725), they are beautiful throughout the year with shrubs, lakes, and temples.
Stourhead House at Stourton, a Palladian villa with Regency additions, contains furniture made for the house by Thomas Chippendale the younger (c. 1749 – 1822), as well as many fine paintings.

29 MAY 1998

Wilton House, set in 8.5ha (21ac) of landscaped parkland and gardens, is the stately home to the Earls of Pembroke. There are staterooms by Inigo Jones (1573 – 1652) and a world-famous art collection.

17 MAY 1998

On the north side of Choristers Green is Mompesson House. Built in 1701 and set in a walled garden, it is one of the finest houses in Cathedral Close. Furnished as an 18th-century town house, it features a collection of glasses from the same period.

03 FEB 1998

In The King’s House at 65 The Close is the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, which has award-winning galleries on Stonehenge and Old Sarum, amongst others. It also features ceramics, a Wedgwood room, pre-NHS (National Health Service) surgery, costume, lace, embroidery, a picture gallery, and exhibitions.