These are just some of them!
Historic Marlborough (market days Wednesday & Saturday) is a short walk away down a small country lane past the Marlborough White Horse, Preshute Church and Marlborough College. There are restaurants and pubs, Post Office, Leisure Centre (swimming, gym etc), Library, Museum, Golf courses, shops selling clothes, antiques, specialist foods, artists' materials, books etc.
Other interesting towns within easy distance by car: Bath Spa, Devizes, Cheltenham Spa, Oxford. London is only 75 miles away by car.
There are fine country houses (for example Stourhead, Bowood, Longleat), The Kennet & Avon Canal (including the famous Caen Flight of 29 locks at Devizes).
Festivals - including the Marlborough Jazz Festival, Pewsey Carnival, Marlborough Carnival, Chippenham Folk festival and the Eddie Cochran Memorial Festival take place at various times of the year.
Country Pubs abound - some have games like darts or skittles, there are several good local breweries (such as Wadworth in Devizes) and most serve excellent meals.
Historic sites - such as Stonehenge (circa 3100BC), Avebury (5000 year old stones intertwined with the village of Avebury), Neolithic Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow are close, there are several Wiltshire white horses cut into the chalk hills at various dates. There are many beautiful churches, abbeys & cathedrals - especially at Salisbury, Malmesbury, Bradford on Avon and Alton Barnes.
From neolithic monuments to Shakespeare (he is reputed to have performed in Marlborough), from Cromwell to Henry VIII (he courted Jane Seymour at nearby Wolf Hall and her father & brother are buried in Great Bedwyn Church); from Windmills (at Wilton) to Beam engines at Crofton, the Railway Museum in Swindon, the Wool Museum in Trowbridge, the Postal Museum in Bath, you can follow in the footsteps of Jane Austen in Bath, see where pioneering photography was developed by Fox Talbot in Lacock, be inspired by the Fleet Air Arm Museum or descend into the stone quarries at Corsham. There are Craft Fairs and Country Shows; you can see where parts of the Harry Potter films were shot or see the Saving Private Ryan landscape of the Plains.
If you are feeling active you can horse ride in the beautiful Pewsey Vale, fish for trout or carp, swim or play golf at a number of local courses. If you want to cycle, Manton is on the Wiltshire Cycleway route and there are some superb walks, including the ancient Ridgeway Path.
If you like gardens and trees the vast Savernake Forest comes to the edge of Marlborough, the West Woods (with bluebells in Spring) are close to the village, Westonbirt Arboretum, Stourhead and Bowood a short drive away.
There are local deer, badgers, foxes and hares and rabbits, an abundance of bird life, butterflies and wild flowers.
Crop Circles - out-of-this-world formations in the fields, sometimes appear - usually in Autumn.
You will see lots of horses (Manton and Lambourn are famous for race horse training and there is racing at Cheltenham and Windsor), cattle, sheep, pigs (Wiltshire bacon is famous) and even bison and alpaca.
Theatres - in Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Newbury, Oxford, Bagnor, Cheltenham, Devizes & Reading have programmes all year and there are cinemas in Swindon, Devizes & Chippenham.
