About Us

 As you travel along the A4 towards Beckhampton you will come across a 16th Century Public house called The Waggon and Horses. The A4 was once the main road leading from Bristol to London. The public house was seen as an important stop for many a weary traveller on horseback or stagecoach travelling between the two cities. The journey would take two days, and so the Waggon and Horses was a welcome sight on those cold winter nights on the Marlborough Downs. It is now recognised as a listed building with a traditional thatched roof, and exquisite dormer windows which makes it a building of great importance. Its popularity became so when Charles Dickens himself mentioned the building in his novel "Pickwick Papers"