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©Chris Henley
Dist:0.5km<br/>This pub on the Potterne Road just south of the town centre is cosy and welcoming. Walls and ceilings are festooned with hops; there is a wide choice of seating, and a skittle alley at the back. The pub is listed in the 2009 Good Beer Guide. On sale at my visit were Hop Back Downton Glory & Quadhop, and Itchen Valley American Liberty.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>The club is a privately owned club with 2 greens.
©andrew auger
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©andrew auger
Dist:0.6km<br/>A pleasant sequence of Georgian houses, red brick with stone dressings (including stringcourses and quoins) which seems to be the norm in Devizes. All either Grade II or Grade II* listed. The first one is the Conservative Club.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.6km<br/>A pleasant sequence of Georgian houses, red brick with stone dressings (including stringcourses and quoins) which seems to be the norm in Devizes. All either Grade II or Grade II* listed.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.6km<br/>In Long Street.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>Substantial late-Georgian house, c1830-40. Most of the windows, which are casements, have stepped voussoirs. Grade II listed.
©Stephen Richards
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©Nick Smith
Dist:0.7km<br/>The railway started its working life in 1857 when the railway first envisaged by the short-lived Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway as far back as 1845 finally opened (by 1854 when construction started, the WS&WR had been absorbed into the Great Western Railway). At that time the line from Holt Junction, to the west on the still-extant main line from Chippenham and points east to Trowbridge and points west, to Devizes terminated in the town. However, five years on, in 1862, the line was extended to Patney and Chirton on the, again still open, main line between Newbury and Westbury so that the former branch line provided a through route. Topography necessitated the construction of a tunnel under Devizes Castle. The railway had its ups and downs and was particularly busy in the second world war. Some troops from the retreat of Dunkirk passed through Devizes Station as did many enemy prisoners of war. Following the end of hostilities the line went into decline as road traffic grew and the last passenger train left Devizes on 16 April 1966. This section of trackbed seems to be in private hands although there is a public footpath carried by a bridge over the line which provided the viewpoint. The information above was found in 'Wiltshire Railway Stations' by Mike Oakley published by the Dovecote Press in 2004 ISBN 1 904349 33 1.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.7km<br/>Long Street is filled with Georgian houses, mostly red brick with stone dressings (including stringcourses and quoins) which seems to be the norm in Devizes. The emphasis on the central bay also seems to be a local motif. The building in the foreground is the town museum which has a Gothic addition of 1872. Grade II listed.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.7km<br/>Devizes fire station, Southbroom Road, Devizes, Wiltshire
©Kevin Hale

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