Devizes

Devizes is a small market town in North Wiltshire; it is famous for a few reasons one being its magnificent flight of 29 locks on Caen Hill.

Devizes does have a castle though it is not open to the public. The 19th century building stands on the site of a former Norman fortification that was built by the Bishop of Salisbury.

The town’s main attraction is the museum, which was the first in Wiltshire and features an impressive haul of Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age findings. The collection is of pre-historic relics and is among the finest in Europe, though the museum does have more contemporary exhibits too. A white horse chalk hill figure was cut into Roundway Hill just north of the town to commemorate the millennium.