• One of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world, this stone circle is estimated to date from 2200 BC. Discover it for yourself by driving left out of Little Fern and staying on this road for 20 minutes.

• Another Stone circle, but this time surrounding the village of Avebury, the village pub is The King's Arms, famed for its ghosts (!), where food and atmosphere are well worth a visit. The advantage at Avebury is that one can walk amongst the Stones, and even touch them. Don't forget to visit West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill while you are there.

• Steeped in history, Salisbury is a beautiful Cathedral City situated just over half an hour South of Little Fern. There you will find shops, boutiques, markets, theatres, and great restaurants well worth more than just one visit.

• Lacock Village, dating back to the 13th-century, remains largely unchanged over the centuries and has many limewashed, half-timbered and stone houses. During the Middle Ages Lacock became a prosperous and thriving town through its wool industry. 
• The famous cloisters at Lacock Abbey are regularly used in the Harry Potter films.

• This Roman Spa town is seen by many as the most beautiful town in England. It is a wonderful mixture of sweeping Cotswold stone, Edwardian architecture and  little lanes with quirky shops. Bath also has a wonderful theatre, restaurants and pubs. A real feast for the soul. The city is a 40 minute drive from Little Fern or a short train journey from Westbury Station. Don't forget to look out for the Westbury White Horse.

• Famous for its private school, Marlborough is a very beautiful and historic market town. Half an hour's drive from Little Fern, Marlborough offers a street market, good shops & boutiques and an extensive range of pubs and restaurants. Why not visit the Pewsey Vale White horse on your way there?

• About half an hour from Little Fern, off the A303 is Thruxton Airfield which sports an exhilarating race circuit - any adrenalin junkies' heaven!

• Half an hour from Little Fern is the world famous Longleat Safari Park. The house and gardens are stunning, nevertheless the Safari Park is the real eye-opener. Opened in 1966 as the world's first safari park outside Africa, it has been the subject of television and films and still today is one of the best in the world. Drive round the myriads of enclosures featuring graceful and sometimes ferocious beasts. However, beware of the monkeys!

• A two minute stroll from the door of Little Fern finds you at the award winning a'Becketts Vineyard. The Langhams produce some of this country's finest wines, and so they should... the soil around Littleton Panell is chemically identical to that of Champagne! Don't take our word for it, after your tour of the vineyard, have a glass or two of 'Wiltshire fizz' with Lynn & Paul the proprietors.

• This takes place at Stowford Manor Farm in Wiltshire, one of the most picturesque settings in the country for an event of this type. The festival features internationally known acts from the world of Folk/Roots music.

The Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy

• Edington is a small village on the edge of Salisbury Plain, four miles east of Westbury on the B3098. For one week in August every year since 1956, Edington has hosted a Festival of Music within the Liturgy in its magnificent fourteenth-century priory church. Singers from many of the great cathedral and collegiate choirs come together to take part in the week's daily services. There are no tickets for the services and seats cannot be reserved.

• Throughout the week Matins and Compline are sung to plainsong by the Schola Cantorum (directed by Andrew Carwood, Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral and conductor of The Cardinall's Musick), whilst the principal services are led by a Nave Choir of men and boys (conducted by Matthew Martin, Assistant Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral) and a Consort of mixed voices (directed by Jeremy Summerly, Sterndale Bennett Lecturer in Music at the Royal Academy of Music and conductor of Oxford Camerata). The festival is directed by Julian Thomas, formerly Assistant Organist of Norwich Cathedral.

Crop Circles

• Each summer, the Wiltshire countryside is host to a strange phenomenon. Swirls of flattened corn, or 'crop circles', litter the landscape like fingerprints. The county of Wiltshire is one of the most active areas for crop circles in the world, particularly around the historical stones of Avebury and Silbury Hill. In this ancient landscape, the grassy whorls take over the fields of rape, barley and wheat like massive installation art.

And many more.  Various leaflets and diaries of events can be found in the guesthouse.