Rowde
Rowde is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, on the A342 about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of Devizes.
Rowde is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, on the A342 about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of Devizes. The parish includes the hamlet of Tanis.
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Worth seeing in and around Rowde
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Devizes Castle
Devizes Castle was a medieval fortification in the town of Devizes, Wiltshire, England, on a site now occupied by a Victorian-era castle. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.8 km · Grade I listed castle in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Caen Hill Locks
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. Of the 107 locks on the canal, those at Caen Hill are numbered 22 to 50, and they are near the canal highpoint at Cadley Lock.
1.4 km · Flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal · Wikipedia - 03Brownston House
Brownston House is a Grade I listed building on New Park Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, dating from the beginning of the 18th century. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.9 km · Grade I listed house in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Town Hall
Devizes Town Hall is a municipal building in St John's Street in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Devizes Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
3 km · Grade II* listed building in Devizes, UK · Wikipedia - 05Wiltshire Museum
The Wiltshire Museum, formerly known as Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Devizes Museum, is a museum, archive and library and art gallery established in 1874 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The museum was created and is run by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, a registered charity founded in 1853.
3.1 km · Museum in Devizes, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Greystone House
Greystone House is a Grade II* listed house in High Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. It was built between 1740 and 1744 with a front of Bath stone to a brick building with a hipped slate roof.
3 km · house in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Market Cross, Devizes
The Market Cross in Devizes, Wiltshire, England sits in Market Place at the centre of the town. It was constructed in 1814 on the site of an older cross.
2.8 km · historic monument in Devizes, England · Wikipedia - 08Kennet & Avon Canal Museum
The Kennet and Avon Canal Museum is a museum in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, covering the history of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The museum is housed in a former bonded warehouse at Devizes Wharf, approximately 1 mile from the Caen Hill Flight.
2.8 km · museum in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia - 09Devizes White Horse
Devizes White Horse, officially known as the Devizes Millennium White Horse, is a chalk hill figure of a horse located on Bank Field, an escarpment at Roundway Hill, on the outskirts of the town of Devizes above the hamlet of Roundway, Wiltshire, England; it is about ½ mile north of Roundway. It was cut in 1999 to celebrate the forthcoming third millennium, and is based on the design of an earlier white horse hill figure, also known as the Devizes White Horse, or sometimes the Snobs Horse.
4 km · hill figure in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia - 10Roundway Down and Covert
Roundway Down and Covert is an area of sloping chalk grassland close to the hamlet of Roundway, near Devizes in Wiltshire, England. It is part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
2.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rowde
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 110 km
- Bristol → Rowde41 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £5–7
- London → Rowde133 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £14–18
- Cardiff → Rowde81 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £10–13
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rowde
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rowde. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.
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Next door to Rowde
Rowde is 40 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.