Savernake Forest was where Norman and Tudor kings hunted boar and deer. Until, in the 18C, its 4000 acres were replanted by the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown (1715-83) with oak, ash, larch and thousands of beech trees. This magnificent f..

High Street, which crosses the town from the Green to Marlborough College, is lined with pretty houses, all different, including two 17C posthouses (Castle and Ball, Sun Inn).

At the western end of the town, St Peter and St Paul's (now an art and crafts centre) was rebuilt in the 15C and entirely restored in the mid-19C.