Meadowbrook Cottage B & B                                                       Clive or Kate Sugg
3 Middlehill, Box, Near Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 8QR             Tel: 01225 744 667
e-mail:  kate.kls@btinternet.com

Local Attractions and Sight-seeing

Bowood House & Gardens, Chippenham

Bowood House, Chippenham, Wiltshire

Peacock in the town of Corsham

Castle Combe

Great Chalfield Manor

Box By-brook

An interestingly built tunnel along the footpath from us

There are so many beautiful and exciting places to visit here in Wiltshire, some of which happen to be almost right on our doorstep.  To help you, we have listed a few below.


Corsham (2 miles)
With Corsham Court, Flemish Cottages, Almshouses and Monks Chapel. Corsham is also now well known for the television series Poldark, as some of the filming took place here.  Visit Corsham and also see the wonderful sight of the peacocks wandering around the town.

City of Bath (5 miles)
The City of Bath with its wealth of historic buildings, Roman Baths, American Musuem, Jane Austin and many others.

Thermae Bath Spa (5 miles)
Enjoy Britain's only natural thermal waters as the Celts and Romans did over 2,000 years ago.

Badminton Horse Trials (17 miles)
The Mitushishi Motor Badminton Horse Trials are held at annually at Badminton in May.

The Royal Bath & West Show
Held at the Shepton Mallet showground annually in the first week in June.

Lacock Village (6 miles)
The village of Lacock with Lacock Abbey (National Trust - open to the public) and the Fox Talbot Photographic Musuem.  Several films have been made in Lacock including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Harry Potter.

Bradford-on-Avon (5 miles)
An old woollen town with Saxon Church.

Bowood House & Gardens, Chippenham (13 miles)
Home of the Marquis of Lansdowne with its totally stunning house full of history and equally stunningly beautiful gardens.

Castle Combe (6 miles)
Well known for its motor racing circuit and for the filming of the original Dr Doolittle (with Rex Harrison), acclaimed to be England's prettiest village.  Other filming at Castle Combe includes Harry Potter, War Horse, The Wolf Man amongst others.

Stonehenge (40 miles)

Avebury Rings (18 miles)
Neolithic stone circle encircling the village of Avebury with Elizabethan Manor Gardens, part of the World Heritage site.

Devizes (18 miles)
With its Musuem and the Caen Hill Locks and the Kennet & Avon Canal.

Longleat House and Safari Park (24 miles)

Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury

Dyrham Park (6 miles)
National Trust.

Abbey Gardens, Malmesbury (16 miles)
The Abbey Gardens and its 12th Century Benedictine Abbey.


If you like visiting Churches, then we have a wonderful selection here just in the Parish of Box alone.  We have our own St Thomas a Beckett in Box Village.  There is the tiny Chapel at Chapel Plaister, Wadswick and in the hamlet of Ditteridge there is St Christopher's Church, Ditteridge.


Bus Service for Bath

If you are driving into Bath you need to make sure you go early!  If you leave it too late in the morning, parking can become quite difficult.  The nearest bus stop to us is at The Northey Arms which is about 12 minutes walk up the road from us.  The buses during the week run every 20 minutes.  This is sometimes the easier option as it saves the hassle of driving into Bath and trying to park once you are there.  An adult return fare costs £5.50.