Places to visit outside the town

	Places to visit outside the town.

Ultimate Karting of Hulavington
Open every day 11.00am - 10.00pm Indoors, Junior sessions. Take the A429 towards Cirencester, over the M4, then left after old airfield. Signposted.
Tel. 01666 838600
Car Racing & Karting at Castle Combe Circuit
Signposted from A420, Chippenham - Bristol.
Also hosts special days for many classic car clubs.
Check local press or the Events page for details of current events.
Corsham Court
Based on an Elizabethan house dating from 1582, resyled by "Capability" Brown and standing in Brown's parkland, landscaped gardens. Corsham Court houses a magnificant collection of 16th and 17th century Italian and Flemish paintings, rare Italian primatives and stone inlaid furniture.
You are free to wander at will through a collection including works by Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Rubens and Reynolds.
The house has been used as a setting for several cinema and TV films.
Open Daily, excepting Mondays and December. Check times. Tel. 01249 701610. On A4 Chippenham - Bath road, (4 miles)
Lacock Abbey, & Fox Talbot Museum
The Abbey dating from 1232 was donated along with most of the rest of the village, to the National Trust in 1944. It has been carefully maintained and the village is a collection of 700 years of architecture. The Abbey was the home of William Henry Fox Talbot inventor of photography and the great barn at its entrance is a museum commemorating his life and work. Lacock is off the A350 Chippenham to Trowbridge road
Castle Combe

Castle Combe was once voted England's most beautiful village, take a look for yourself.

Castle Combe is on the left of the A420 Chippenham - Bristol road.
The White Horses
No visit to Wiltshire would be complete without going to see a white horse or seven. Yes seven. Once long, long ago some-one decided to dig out a patch of steep hillside in the shape of a horse and let the chalk show through. Like a lot of good ideas, it sort of caught on! Visit the White Horses
Woodland Park
Brokerswood Woodland Park covers eighty acres of historic broad leaved woodland. During the summer guided walks are offered during the day and evening, followed by either lunch or supper. Or go your own way.There are nature trails, a lake with wild fowl, coarse fishing and picnic areas. Purpose built barbeques are available.
Also in the park is the Smokey Oak Railway. Chalet accomodation, together with a caravan and camping site are available for those who wish to stay.
Contact the Administration Office on 01373 822238 for further details.
Brokerswood is between the A361 Trowbridge - Frome and A36 Bath - Warminster roads. From Chippenham take the A350 south, turn right at Yarnbrook, then left.
Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum
A small informal museum containing around 70 exhibits. Ranging from a tiny 1931 Singer of just 847cc to a 8200cc Cadillac Sedan De-Ville. Open all year but not Fridays or Saturdays. 11am - 5pm (4pm in winter)
The museum is off the A4 Calne to Malborough road.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Yes the GWR again. Thirteen miles of live steam railway based at Toddington, the GWR hope eventually to retore the line from Stratford to Cheltenham. A great day out on the railway for all ages..Weekends, Bank Holidays and daily through the school holidays. Check with their talking timetable on 01242 621405. They also run Wine & Dine evening excusions and footplate experience courses. Drive it yourself!
Toddington is north of Chippenham on A429 Cirencester then Stow on the Wold, turn left at Stow on to the B4077.

Stonehenge

Just thirty miles from Chippenham, Stonehenge is a World Heritage Site and should not be missed. Building started over 5,000 years ago and took some 1,500 years. Stand and gaze at stones that were pulled overland by men for over 219 miles. After you've soaked it all in you may still not believe it.
Opening times vary with the season but always include 9.30am - 4.00pm. Tel.01980 624715. Closed 24-26 December & 1 January.
The best route to Stonehenge is via Devizes A324, then Tilshead A360
An English Heritage site.

Avebury

Not immediatley as impressive as Stonehenge, Avebury is a much larger site yet with a more intimate feel to it. The village has grown in among the stones. Indeed many can be found broken down and embeded into the wall of buildings. Take a walk around the great ditch and up on the top among the stones themselves. Visit the Museum and the Church, part Anglo Saxon, part Norman, part 1812.
For the really energetic, Silbury Hill, the largest man made mound in Europe, lies only a mile to the South.
Avebury is a mile off the A4 Chippenham to Marlborough road.
Also a World Heritage Site Avebury is in the care of
The National Trust.

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Places to visit outside the town.

Ultimate Karting of Hulavington

Car Racing & Karting at Castle Combe Circuit

Corsham Court

Lacock Abbey, & Fox Talbot Museum

Castle Combe

The White Horses

Woodland Park

Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Stonehenge

Avebury