Places to explore in WiltshireEngland · South West England

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

Vast henge and circle wrapping a whole village.

National Trust-owned village of timbered and stone cottages with a medieval abbey and barn, kept free of modern clutter and much used on screen.

Wiltshire

Elizabethan house with Britain's first safari park.

The most famous prehistoric monument in the world.

Palladian landscape garden of lake and temples.

Early English Gothic cathedral raised in 38 years from 1220, under England's tallest spire, with an original Magna Carta and Britain's largest close.

Honey-stone Cotswold village around a medieval market cross and packhorse bridge, often called England's prettiest and a favourite film location.

Wiltshire

Ancient wood pasture and heathland where commoners' ponies still roam free.

567 km²

Europe's largest man-made prehistoric mound.

A giant kiwi cut into Beacon Hill in 1919 by New Zealand soldiers waiting to go home, complete with the letters NZ.

A row of regimental cap-badges cut into the down by soldiers in the First World War — the biggest and most complete group of hill figures in England.