Four ticks in the bag, we headed back to Devizes for our room for the night.
In a week where a Melksham B & B rated “adequate” would cost you £147.22 with Booking.com Genius (that’s me) discount, the Bear seemed a bargain, albeit not quite as cheap as the night we spent in the car park directly behind the hotel in 2020.
Wadworth’s flagship, it not only has 3 bars and free parking, there’s also a staircase.
Oh, and a chaise longue (top).
The average age of the guests was 73 (76.2 excluding us), none of whom would have a clue what the Wet Leg anthem was about. Eavesdropping in pubs is clearly the greatest thing in life, but listening in to Keith and Theresa from Farnham over full English the next morning runs it a close second.
The rooms are as old-fashioned as you could wish,
and the view across Devizes market place (mainly a queue for the vaccination centre) is surely only matched by that from the Victoria Falls Hotel ?
OK, I’m on commission from the Bear, but we all need a side hustle in 2022.
retiredmartin 
We stayed there a few years back. I liked Devizes and the hotel. Enjoyable to watch a square like that.
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Yes, I’m thinking that I wouldn’t mind staying there some day.
It’s several miles from a railway station but I’ve now got a bumpy bus pass not that I’ve used it yet.
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I was on the lookout for a chaise longue on my travels to score that Wet Leg tie-in.
Somehow I knew you’d beat me to it!
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I love old coaching inns like that -so much history & slightly tatty around the edges -the staircase is fantastic -one similar to that in the Royal Hotel ,Deal
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Aye, and two hundred years before Escher an’ all, Pauline.
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Yes, only slightly tatty, but you know there’s not going to be a multi-million investment any time soon.
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Do I receive a Doom Bar for spotting the black cat in the fireplace?
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An optical illusion, Etu, but not quite in the same league as Escher!
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Grumble. We didn’t get a sofa in our room when we stayed their in January. Also the 6X was better in our local than in the brewery tap. British Lion and the lock flight was excellent.
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The chaise lounge was on the landing, in case there was misunderstanding.
No Bass in the British Lion on your visit then ? Great pub but not great Bass.
6X used to be a well known beer in the ’90s when Whitbread were pushing cask, doubt it is now.
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Yes, widely available in Whitbread’s estate then and Wetherspoons by the late 1990s.
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I’d forgot about its presence in Spoons. More likely to see Swordfish or similarly niche Wadworths seasonal in Spoons these days.
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I remember Swordfish being at the Anchor, High Offley on the Sunday before Christmas 2012, the only time in very many years I’ve known other than 6X there.
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