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Looking east towards Golden Gate - the entrance to Bowood Park. The field is currently home to new-born lambs.
©Janine Forbes
In 1987 a corner of Capability Browns Great Park at Bowood House, the family home of the Marquis of Lansdowne, was turned into a golf course. This is the entrance to the Golf and Country Club.
©Stuart and Fiona Jackson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>This fine looking pub has an excellent view over the Avon valley in a westerly direction. The food is very good with a varied menu and, being a Wadworths pub, so too is the beer. It gets very busy at weekends, but try it in the week out of the holiday season and it is a great place to relax and take in the atmosphere. One of my favourites! The original pub which stood here was named the Shelbourne Arms, dating from at least 1810. By 1838 it was known as the Lansdowne Arms. Both names refer to the owner of Bowood House, bought in 1754 by John Petty, Lord Shelburne, who was later created Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784. The present building was built in 1843 to replace the old one.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km north<br/>This pub provides a good view of the Avon valley below.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Wadworth's brewery is in the centre of Devizes.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Colin Bates
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Viewed from the Lansdowne Arms. Built in 1840 by Sir Charles Barry for the Earl of Shelburne as the main entrance to the 2,000 acre Bowood House estate (Capability Brown). Now the entrance to Bowood Golf and Country Club. Visitors to Bowood use a different entrance.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The gate house of Bowood by night.
©Robin Hereward-isaac
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The A342 joins the A4 in just over half a mile then its ho! and away for Chippenham. Or Calne if you go the other way.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Sign at an entrance to Bowood Estate.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km north<br/>An amenity the village is fortunate still to have.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km north<br/>You can also get in this way if you are driving a coach or if you are staff.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Looking south showing the rolling nature of the road as it leaves Derry Hill.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A Victorian Well which was restored in 2002. It is situated very near the junctions of the A4 and A342. A rhyme is etched into the lintel of the wells roof: Here quench your thirst and make in me An emblem of true charity, Who why my Bounty bestow, Am neither heard nor seen to flow. Repaid by fresh supplies from Heaven, For every cup of water give.
©Janine Forbes
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Heading west toward Chippenham, joins the A342 at the bottom of the hill.
©Maurice Pullin

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