Ten Places Not to Visit in Wessex by Josh Candle

Stonehenge: thanks to English Heritage 

Title: Ten Places Not to Visit in Wessex

Author: Josh Candle

Publisher: Not known 

Source book: The Woman Who Died a Lot 

To be honest, Ten Places Not to Visit in Wessex sounds more like a web page than a book, but a well motivated author can spin out their recommendations for ages.

We don’t learn what place on the Top Ten, or Bottom Ten really, the Hotel Bellvue occupies. Its position between the M4, the Swindon Tannery and the city’s main electrical substation suggests that someone was having a laugh when they named it. The hotel is nicknamed the Substation which seems to me to be a rather good name for a hotel, and it has qualified for Clip-Joint magazine’s coveted Five Bedbug rating. Which is probably not a good thing.

I have been to Swindon railway station often, and once had a huge nosebleed there while in charge of 6 school children, but not to the town itself. However, I have been to lots of places in Wessex, including Stonehenge back in the days when you could touch the stones, Avebury where you still can, Silbury Hill and Hetty Pegler’s Tump (I went inside!): all of these should be included in the Top Ten places you really ought to visit. If you ask me.

Thanks to Sciencealert.com