Small Wiltshire market town overlooking the Blackmoor Vale, with coaching inns, for it was an important stop on the London to Plymouth road. Many Georgian houses. Five miles north-east is the outstanding landmark of Alfred's Tower, 150 feet high, on a hill 800 feet high, built to commemorate the victories of King Alfred. Magnificent panorama of the Thomas Hardy country. Nearby is racecourse for which town's name is well known. Also nearby is Stourhead the landscape gardens which could be the most perfect of their kind.