| The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock Posted by Mark A at 17:29, 21st September 2025 |     |
The Peterborough Arms... has ***reopened*** after a period of closure brought about in part because it's on one of England's wurst-behaving roads.
Weekday evenings only for the moment, but from noon on Saturdays and 12:30 on Sundays.
It's on a demand-responsive transport route from the people on the following link. Totally unfamiliar with how those work in practice and it may be that it wouldn't be compatible with the desire to spend a couple of hours there on a Saturday, admiring the eponymous lock, the pub, and also a weighbridge that's scaled for another age entirely. (Not necessarilly in that order...)
https://www.connectingwiltshire.co.uk/
Mark
| Re: The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock Posted by grahame at 18:06, 21st September 2025 | |
The Peterborough Arms... has ***reopened*** after a period of closure brought about in part because it's on one of England's wurst-behaving roads.
Weekday evenings only for the moment, but from noon on Saturdays and 12:30 on Sundays.
It's on a demand-responsive transport route from the people on the following link. Totally unfamiliar with how those work in practice and it may be that it wouldn't be compatible with the desire to spend a couple of hours there on a Saturday, admiring the eponymous lock, the pub, and also a weighbridge that's scaled for another age entirely. (Not necessarilly in that order...)
https://www.connectingwiltshire.co.uk/
Mark
Weekday evenings only for the moment, but from noon on Saturdays and 12:30 on Sundays.
It's on a demand-responsive transport route from the people on the following link. Totally unfamiliar with how those work in practice and it may be that it wouldn't be compatible with the desire to spend a couple of hours there on a Saturday, admiring the eponymous lock, the pub, and also a weighbridge that's scaled for another age entirely. (Not necessarilly in that order...)
https://www.connectingwiltshire.co.uk/
Mark
Saturday afternoon is the only time - thus far - that the demand responsive bus and the pub are both operating; the demand responsive bus has got itself a good press in Wiltshire on what is a quite difficult environment to run a public transport service. https://www.connectingwiltshire.co.uk/royal-wootton-bassett-malmesbury/ give you the map. Push comes to shove for fitter people - a walk to Christian Malford or to Royal Wootton Bassett. Ironically, the railway passes real close - perhaps Network Rail or GBR could add a station like this one, as done in Sweden and servicing a food and drink establishment:
| Re: The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock Posted by Mark A at 18:54, 21st September 2025 | |
There's... is it the 91 Faresaver - from Chippenham - passes within a 15 minute walk or so, though Saturday timings aren't quite ideal and I've not yet quite decoded the route.
Mark
| Re: The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock Posted by Mark A at 20:45, 21st September 2025 | |
I had to be reminded that the station at Dauntsey Lock was the junction station for the branch to Malmesbury (which itself had ambitions on Tetbury).
Mark
| Re: The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock Posted by grahame at 20:56, 21st September 2025 | |
There's... is it the 91 Faresaver - from Chippenham - passes within a 15 minute walk or so, though Saturday timings aren't quite ideal and I've not yet quite decoded the route.
Mark
Mark
Ah yes - the village bus. 5 journeys on a Saturday, on four variations. On a Monday to Friday there are services on schooldays and seven on none-schools day and no to are the same; one of the seven runs a different route on schooldays too. All a bit hit and miss for newcomers to the area - talking of which the Hit and Miss in Kington Langley is served by the first four journeys into Chippenham on a Monday to Friday into Chippenham, and outbound on request of passengers already in the bus on the third and subsequent journeys. On Saturday ... oh, you get the drift.
