5 reasons Wiltshire deserves more than a day trip

Wiltshire doesn’t quite fit anywhere. It leans into the Cotswolds on one side and the West Country on the other, and yet it never reads as either. Chalk downs roll into clipped parkland, parkland gives way to a village so pretty it looks like someone built it for a film set (several have, actually). It’s an odd, layered county, and most people drive straight through it on the way to Bath without stopping. That’s a mistake. Passepartout Homes, explains why. Stonehenge is better than you remember it being Most people have already “done” Stonehenge, usually on a school trip, usually in the rain, usually from behind a rope with a coach idling somewhere nearby. Worth going back. The stones are older than almost anything else standing in Britain — parts of the site are pushing 5,000 years old — and there’s still no consensus on exactly why it was built, which is more unsettling in person than it sounds on paper. You can’t touch the stones anymore, but English Heritage has done a genuinely good job with the visitor centre, so the history lands rather than just the gift shop. If you want to go further than most visitors bother to, book the Stonehenge Explorer Tour ahead of time. It’s a sma...