Welcome to Wiltshire Breweries
WHAT could be more British than real ale?
Set
in the heart of England, Wiltshire has more than its fair share of old pubs
and hostelries. It has famous breweries too, which are well worth a visit.
The famous Wadworth Brewery in Devizes was founded in 1875. In Northgate Street
the brewery has a fine Victorian facade and was designed and built by Henry
Wadworth in 1885.
Permeating the air with the dusky smell of hops, it has been producing fine
Wiltshire ale for well over a hundred years. Wadworths is a brewery where
family and tradition are still the ruling watchwords of its operation.
Wadworths Brewery, still has shire horses to hand to help deliver the brewed
beer. The four horses, Wilt, Buscot, Royal and Tom are hard-working horses
who help to transport Wadworths beer to pubs and hostelries in Devizes.
They are rewarded with two weeks holiday in a field near Poulshot and a welcome
pint of Wadworths ale.
SWINDON brewery, Arkells is another well-known name in Wiltshire beer.
It is one of Britain's oldest traditional breweries and, like Wadworths, prides
itself on a familial tradtion going back 158 years.
In the 1850's, Isambard Kingdom Brunel chose Swindon for the industrial works
of his Great Western Railway.
This was around the same time that John Arkell started to brew beer for his
own pub, the Kingsdown Inn, and from then on Swindon began to expand from
a small market town into a industrial centre.
The brewery is still one of the finest examples of an authentic Victorian
steam brewery.
Wadworth Brewery
Arkells Brewery
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