Things To Do
Longleat…need we say more! On a summers evening you can hear the tigers roaring from our garden!… www.longleat.co.uk
Cley Hill, a substantial Iron Age Hillfort managed by the National Trust, is a few minutes drive along the A362. Famous for the UFO s sighted in the area in the 1970s. It is said -
The folk of Devizes had offended the devil, who sore he would serve them out. So he went “down the country” (ie into Somerset), and found a big “hump” and put it on his back, to carry it and fling it at them. On his journey back he met a man and asked the way to Devizes. The man replied,
That’s just what I want to know myself. I started for Devizes when my beard was black, and now it’s grey, and I haven’t got there yet.
The devil replied, “If that’s how it is, I won’t carry this thing no further, so here goes, ” and he flung the “girt (great) hump” off his shoulder, and there it is.
Thoulston Park Golf Club, along the A36 – to play a round.
West Wilts Golf Club, near Warminster – to play again.
Warminster – dating from Saxon times, Warminster is situated to the south west of Salisbury Plain, at the head of the enchantingly beautiful Wylye Valley. Warminster has, for many years, had very close links with the military and is still considered an important military centre.- http://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk
Frome is the fourth largest town in Somerset, and a wonderful centre from which to visit the surrounding area. It is an attractive town built on steep hills with cobbled streets. Architecturally well preserved, there are more listed buildings in Frome than in any other Somerset town – http://www.frometouristinfo.co.uk/history.asp
