Pewsey
Pewsey is a village and civil parish at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, about 6 miles (10 km) south of Marlborough and 71 miles (114 km) west-southwest of London.
It is within reach of the M4 motorway and the A303 and is served by Pewsey railway station on the Reading to Taunton line.
Getting to Pewsey
The easiest way to get to Pewsey is by train.
Worth seeing
- 01Pewsey White Horse
Things to do
Visit during the carnival activities every September (search for Pewsey Carnival for this year's itinerary). The highlights are a four-legged wine race, where teams of three wearing fancy dress race around the village to drink wine, a "wheel-beer-o" race where teams have spent the summer decorating a wheelbarrow and race to each pub for one drink before running through the river to a finish line, and the Carnival…
Getting around Pewsey the local way
- 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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Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Charles J. Sharp (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.