Blounts Court Farm
Coxhill Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 5PH
Telephone: 01380 727180
AA 5 Stars
Enjoy England 5 Stars
Open all year: Non-smoking
Prices from £36.00 for single and from £58.00 for double occupancy including breakfast. |
Accommodation
- All accommodation is on the ground floor
- All bedrooms are en-suite, centrally heated and tastefully furnished (two with four-poster beds). They each have a colour television, tea and coffee making facilities
- Private sitting room
- Comprehensive breakfast menu including full English breakfast with locally produced bacon and free-range eggs
- Stonehenge and Avebury 15 minutes away
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The Farm
A homely and relaxed atmosphere awaits you at Blounts Court Farm, which is located in the heart of mystical Wiltshire. The farm is situated in 150 acres of arable farmland on the edge of woodland. Many beautiful walks are close at hand and is an ideal location for a get away from it all break. We can even boast a cricket pitch, home of the village cricket team, in our back paddock. The farmhouse dates back approximately 200 years and has been carefully renovated to provide a lovely, happy family home.
The ground floor guest accommodation is located in a recently converted barn adjoining the farmhouse. The rooms are tastefully decorated with many exposed beams. The double bedroom has a four-poster bed and the twin bedroom has original French iron bedsteads, both rooms being en-suite. Television, tea & coffee making facilities, hairdryer and radio/alarm clock and many more personal touches can all be found in the rooms. Guests have their own sitting room. Centrally heated throughout.
Breakfast is taken in the dining room around a large mahogany dining table surrounded by antiques. Guests can choose from a comprehensive breakfast menu which includes homemade marmalade, preserves and bread. We endeavour to use as much local produce as possible. Special diets can be catered for with advance notice.
This quiet, rural location is an ideal choice as a base to tour the surrounding area. The World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge can be reached in under 20 minutes. The Roman City of Bath is only 40 minutes distant, Salisbury 30 minutes and one of the prettiest villages in England, Lacock, is 15 minutes away. We have plenty of good, home cooking in the local pubs (one within walking distance) and Devizes, with its shops and many varied continental restaurants and hotels, just two and a half miles away. |
Devizes
The market town of Devizes sits in the county of Wiltshire. Devizes played an important part in events of the country's early history. The town grew up as settlement around a great castle built by Bishop Roger of Salisbury in the early twelfth century, a castle that was described as 'the finest and most splendid in Europe'. The castle's position, at the precise meeting point of two of the church's manors with another belonging to the King, was chosen to identify and defend them. It became known as castrum ad divisas, 'the castle at the boundaries', and thus provided a basis for the name of the town that followed: Devizes. The extensive walls and ditches that were built to defend the fortress dictated the shape of the town that developed outside and around it and to this day the streets of the modern town follow this pattern.
The old castle has gone, destroyed on the orders of Cromwell after the Civil War, but on the site of it stands a Victorian castle built by a local businessman. Although fanciful in design and built as a home rather than a fortress it is nevertheless an attractive feature in the town, peering over a barrier of encircling trees. Devizes has a wealth of interesting and much older buildings than this 'new' castle: there are two medieval churches, a street of sixteenth-century timber-framed houses, some fine Georgian town houses and a Market Place with a fountain, market cross, corn exchange and a traditional English coaching inn called the Bear Hotel. The Wadworths family brewery, built in Victorian redbrick, dominates the Market Place and still delivers beer to the town's hostelries by horse drawn dray.
There are two museums:
The home of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society which houses a remarkable collection of prehistoric artefacts.
The other, run by The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, has a display depicting the history of an important canal which brought trade to the town in the Industrial Revolution and is now restored to its former glory. The canal climbs the hill to the town through a flight of twenty-nine locks called Caen Hill Locks. |
For more information why not visit:
www.blountscourtfarm.co.uk
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