Crowman Antiques

If you enjoy hunting through old things and discovering objects with genuine history behind them, this shop rewards that kind of browsing. You'll find furniture, curiosities, and decorative pieces spanning different periods – the sort of place where you might stumble across exactly what you were looking for, or find something entirely unexpected that catches your eye. It's easy to lose an hour or two here, turning over items and imagining their previous lives.

Devizes itself deserves time beyond just visiting the shop. It's a real working town with character, full of independent retailers and cafes where locals actually spend their time. The Norman castle remains are worth exploring, the marketplace is genuinely busy, and if you head toward the Kennet & Avon Canal, you'll see the Caen Hill Locks – an impressive engineering feat where the canal climbs the hillside in a series of locks. While Devizes sits slightly outside the official Cotswolds designation, it offers a different perspective on this part of England's history and makes a worthwhile detour from the typical Cotswolds route. You get a genuine sense of how market towns actually function, rather than just how they appear in guidebooks.