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Three single-spot audio stories, each told right where it happened in the Market Place and on the wharf. Horatio, the museum's lion, guides you through three of Devizes' best stops. No app, no sign-in, no payment. Pop your headphones in, stand at the spot, press play. Keep an eye on traffic and the wharf edge.
Where to stand: The Market Cross, Market Place, Devizes
Open in MapsMarket day, January 1753. Four women, one sack of wheat, seventeen shillings, and a sum that won't add up. Hear what the coroner's jury really wrote about Ruth Pierce, and how the tale grew taller with every telling until the town carved it in stone.
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Where to stand: Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, Devizes Wharf
Open in MapsA two-hundred-year-old warehouse, a loo that fell through the floor, and the volunteers who simply wouldn't let it go. Bonded goods, Bath stone, gas coal and a canal that's still very much afloat.
The wharf edge has no fence. Keep children close and dogs on leads.
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Where to stand: The Corn Exchange, Market Place, Devizes
Open in MapsFor more than sixty years Devizes sold its corn in the street. Then, in 1857, it built a temple for it, on part of a hotel yard, with a goddess on top. Bath stone, a borrowed mace, and a trading floor that learned to dance.
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