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The Caen Hill Locks are one of the highlights of Route 4 on the Avon K Canal. Physically this is interesting. The water flows down the mountain, but the ship floats up the mountain lock by lock due to its own buoyancy.

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Very pretty and impressive

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The Devizes Millennium White Horse is one of the most recent chalk figures cut in the UK, created in 1999. It sits up on an escarpment on Roundway Hill just north of Devizes and it's easily accessible by multiple footpaths and bridleways. You can view the horse from the south as well as from neighbouring Milk Hill. It's one of many past and present chalk horses on Wiltshire's hills.

This is a wonderful path from Devizes to Roundway, at the base of Walkers Hill. A tree-lined walkway, it's been a public right of way for 200 years although the path itself likely dates back at least 700 years, running through the Roundhill estate. If you park in Devizes, it's a great path to use to ascend the downs and visit the Millennium white horse.

make sure you check what time the café opens when planning your visit

Great place to stop for tea & cake, with fab view over the countryside and large outdoor seating area. Expect it to be busy on the weekends of course.

From Quakers Walk there are fine views

The top of the new woodland area offers views across towards Roundway and Oliver's Castle

Caen Hill Diamond Jubilee Wood is one of 60 new woods planted in 2012 around the country to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and her 60 years on the throne. Over the years, this wonderful site will grow into a beautiful broadleaved woodland of native trees, giving food and shelter to an array of wildlife and providing people with a place to walk, picnic, run, pick fruit and enjoy the beauty of the natural world. Source:https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/caen-hill-locks/caen-hills-shining-diamond

After walking around the Caen Hill Lock Flight you might like to explore Diamond Jubilee Wood- a wood in the making. This is a special woodland area created to encourage wildlife and absorb air pollution.

www.canalrivertrust.org.uk You can volunteer to help at the Canal River Trust

Live music venue with several function rooms.

The bear that stands on its porch formerly stood on a double column in the middle of the Market Place. It was moved to its present position in 1806. The Bear can be traced back to 1599 when John Sawter was landlord. Undoubtedly the best known of The Bear's occupants was the future Sir Thomas Lawrence, the fashionable portrait painter who came to live here as a young boy when his father became the landlord in 1773. The inn became renowned for the sketches of its customers made by this talented son of the landlord. There's a nice atmosphere and good food here. https://www.thebearhoteldevizes.co.uk

There's a lively weekly market on Thursdays. A market has been held continuously in the town since the 14th century and for the last three hundred years that has been on a Thursday. That market thrives today.

The Fountain is a memorial to T. H. Southeron Estcourt, who founded the Wiltshire Friendly Society in 1828 and was Member of Parliament for Devizes from 1835 until 1844 and for North Wiltshire from 1844 until 1865. Friendly Societies were invaluable to the working classes, enabling them to provide mutual assistance when in financial need. Estcourt worked tirelessly for the Society, firstly as Secretary and then President.  His interest in the poor was a life-long one and he became President of the Poor Law Board in 1858. The fountain was funded by subscriptions from a grateful public in 1879. The fountain was the first use of the public water supply in the town and needed some last minute modifications because of the pressure.

The Market Cross was designed by Benjamin Wyatt and was given somewhat begrudgingly by Lord Sidmouth.  He was Member of Parliament for the Borough from 1784 to 1805 and Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804. Apparently (and not unusual for a politician) he seemed to have forgotten an earlier promise to erect a cross way back in 1797, but the townspeople managed to persuade him and in 1814 the Cross was built.

The newest of Wiltshire's White Horses, Devizes was cut in 1999 to mark the Millennium. It's located on Roundway Hill to the north of Devizes. https://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/things-to-do/devizes-white-horse-p1692753

Cosy, good for kids https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Tea-Room/Caen-Hill-Cafe-177324182319442/?locale2=en_GB Wednesday10:30am5pm Thursday10:30am-3:30pm Friday10:30am3:30pm Saturday10:30am-4:30pm Sunday10:30am-4:30pm Monday10:30am–3:30pm Tuesday10:30am–3:30pm

Restored with aid of the Monument Trust. Caen Hill Flight Lock No 42 is a minor waterways place on the Kennet and Avon Canal (Main Line) between Horton Bridge No 134 (Bishops Cannings village 1 mile north) (4 miles and ¼ furlongs and 8 locks to the east) and Avoncliffe Aqueduct (southern end) -crosses the River Avon and the Bath - Trowbridge railway line.

Visitor Centre: Opening hours are reduced as follows for the foreseeable future - o   Monday - Friday: 10pm - 4pm o   Saturday: Closed  o   Sunday: Closed (as usual)  It’s popular with visitors nationwide, winning a Green Tourism Silver Award and Bronze in the 2016 South West Tourism Excellence Awards.