Latest News & Views from the Pewsey Vale
Pewsey Vale Prize in North Wessex Downs Raffle
Help the Landscape Trust deliver their important conservation work in the North Wessex Downs The North Wessex Downs Landscape Trust charity has launched its first online raffle. Events, where important funds would normally be raised, haven’t been able to take ...
Love the Vale of Pewsey?
If you love the Vale of Pewsey, then here's an opportunity to live and work here! Crofton Beam Engines is looking for a General Manager to run this beautiful and important heritage site and accommodation is also provided. You can ...
Walks from the Crown & Anchor in Ham
This beautiful book of walks from the Crown & Anchor in Ham contains short, medium and long circular walks, all starting from the pub on the village green. Written by Ron Forbes who is involved in the running of the ...
Our Great West Way®
The Great West Way® - southern England's east-west touring route, stretching from Windsor in the east to Bristol and Bath in the west, with the Vale of Pewsey right in the heart of it. We are Destination Ambassadors for the ...
ITV Visits the Vale of Pewsey
On Friday 17th July 2020, ITV This Morning visited the Vale of Pewsey. It was for a series of short films showing celebrities enjoying their favourite dog walk. So it was that Alice Beer and her adorable schpoodle, Stanley, came ...
Bound to be Good
One of the wonderful things about the Vale of Pewsey is that the most unexpected activities take place in such a rural area. An example of this is in Woodborough Yard, home to a leading bookbinding company, Shepherd's Centre for ...
Busy as a Bee at Honeybee Glamping
Honeybee Glamping is in the west of the Vale of Pewsey in the pretty village of Horton, between Pewsey and Devizes. Close to the Kennet and Avon Canal, as well as several lovely country pubs, it is ideally located for ...
A Horse of a Different Colour
It isn’t every day you get a chance to rechalk a White Horse! It’s not that commonplace even in Wiltshire, which is home to 8 of the 14 White Horses in the UK, including the one at Alton Barnes which ...
Why wouldn’t you visit Wiltshire? Pyramids and all!
Here's a lovely article from Pip Browning who runs The Stables at Manor Farm in East Grafton, we hope you enjoy it! Why wouldn’t you visit Wiltshire? Pyramids and all! If you want a great summary of all that Wiltshire’s ...
The Vale’s Volunteer Army
The Vale of Pewsey lies in a very rural part of England and volunteering forms an important part of keeping things running. We are very lucky to have places of heritage and leisure that provide an important part of the ...
Winter Walking
We often think of outdoor activities like walking and cycling to be the preserve of the spring, summer and autumn but winter really can be just as pleasurable. Ok, perhaps not on a day when there's a gale blowing with ...
New Kissing Gate at Giant’s Grave
On 1st December 2018 a new kissing gate at Giant’s Grave, near Pewsey, was dedicated to the memory of Dr Mark Rendall, who passed away in December 2017, aged 75. Mark was a very popular and respected GP in the ...