Our NEW Venue:
The Ceres Hall, Corn Exchange, Devizes, UK
The Corn Exchange, Devizes, is located in the pretty market square in Devizes town centre. From 2010 the lectures are to be held in the beautiful and appropriately named Ceres Hall. Recently redecorated the hall is a stunning and radiant space for our event. Our registration desk and stalls will be located in the front lobby and we also have use of the Merchant's Suite downstairs for refreshments.The building has full disabled access and all important air conditioning.
Car Parking:
The Corn Exchange does not it's own car park, but there several long stay town centre car parks. We will provide a map upon booking.
About Devizes:
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Devizes is an attractive and historic market town in the heart of Wiltshire, with many interesting tourist sites and beautiful countryside nearby. Close to our venue is St John's Alley, complete with church, (built in about 1120) and a 'close' of timbered buildings dating from 1500. The church grounds and St John's Alley offer picturesque views of nearby Devizes castle. Avebury stone circle and Silbury Hill are only a short drive from Devizes. There are a wide variety of cafes, bars and restaurants (many offering vegetarian dishes) all within easy reach to feed and water you during your stay. |
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Accommodation:
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Early booking of accommodation is absolutely essential. Apart from having a town full of our conference goers, Devizes is a very popular tourist destination during the summer months and many of the nearest hotels and B&Bs fill-up months in advance. We strongly recommend you book your accommodation as soon as you decide you want to attend the conference. There are many hotels, inns and B&Bs which provide excellent accommodation very close to the town centre, along with campsites within a short driving distance. We regret we cannot book accommodation for you, but the Devizes Visitor Centre is an extremely helpful resource for information on travel arrangements and on finding a place to stay. |
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Devizes Visitor Centre
Cromwell House, Market Place,
Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1JG
Tel: + 44 (0) 1380 729408
Fax: + 44 (0) 1380 730319
Organised Crop Circle Tour 2010:
Including attendance at the The Summer Crop Circle Lectures!
JULY 25th-AUGUST 3rd 2010: If you are traveling from outside the UK and would like to attend our conference as part of an organised tour package, we can highly recommend this tour by Sacred Britain. Sacred Britain have been organising tours of the UK for over ten years and are led by crop circles and earth mysteries researchers Glenn and Cameron Broughton, who bring a wealth of knowledge, warmth and sensitivity to their tours. You can join the tour from wherever you are travelling.
If you wish to explore the mystery of crop circles with expert guides, visit the latest formations and explore the major sacred sites of the Wiltshire area, then this is the tour for you. You'll learn why the crop circles always occur close by the ancient sacred sites. When a new crop circle is reported we are normally there the next morning to experience its energy firsthand. We also visit the remarkable sites within the Avebury Landscape Temple, Chalice Well Garden, Glastonbury Abbey and the Tor and have a private special access into the stones of Stonehenge. The high spot of the tour is a helicopter flight to see the circles from the air! As if all this weren't enough we also attend the Summer Crop Circle Lectures in Devizes and get to meet the researchers and hear their latest theories"
Glenn and Cameron Broughton - Sacred Britain Tours.
For further information on the itinerary of the tour and booking details, please visit: www.sacredbritain.com/cropcircles.html
When enquiring about this tour please mention the Summer Lectures website!
General Travel Information:
Over the years we have helped many visitors to the Summer Crop Circle Lectures and of course visitors to the circles themselves. Here are some helpful notes.
*Click Here for a more detailed Travel Information document
General Timing: The English crop circle season starts, tentatively, in May though occasionally a formation has been known to arrive as early as April. In these months the formations are few. The major events happen in late July and early August. It has been our experience that visitors do not give themselves enough time. We would suggest that, including the weekend of the lectures, if possible you should allow at least one week in the area. If you wish to visit, say, London, at least three extra days should be allowed.
Transport: Obvious as it may seem, we must remind you that the crop circles appear in fields in the countryside. There is little public transport and you will need a car to visit the circles and move around generally. There are ;vehicles for hire at airports on arrival in England or, more economically, from Devizes.
If you hire a car from Heathrow airport: From the airport get onto the M4 motorway westbound towards Cardiff, Wales. Exit at Junction 15 towards Marlborough. Marlborough is within the crop circle area and is about 20 miles minutes from Devizes.
If you hire a car from Gatwick: From the airport take the M20 motorway northbound towards London. You will shortly hit the M25 London Orbital which you should take westbound towards Heathrow airport. The M25 will (near Heathrow) connect with the M4. Continue as described above from Heathrow.
Car Rental from Devizes: These are not the only car rental operations in Devizes, but visitors have been using them for years without complaint.
Fussell Wadman: tel: 01380 731970, www.peugeut.co.uk/fussell_wasdman
Wildmans of Devizes: tel: 01380 7216658, www.wildmans4x4.co.uk
Maps: An AA (Automobile Association) or Collins UK Road Atlases are both very good general road maps for navigating in the UK. Ordinance Survey Landranger or Explorer maps are excellent for navigating small countryside roads searching for crop circles. These maps are available online or from the links below. The AA and Collins maps should be available at airports, petrol stations and bookshops. The Ordinance Survey maps are available from all good book shops or tourist information centres in the UK.
AA 2010 Road map: Buy map from Amazon.co.uk | Collins 2010 Road map: Buy map from Amazon.co.uk
OS LANDRANGER SHEET 173 Swindon & Devizes | OS EXPLORER SHEET 157 Marlborough & Savernake Forest
Click here to see the location on Multimap.com
Caution: Many shops, businesses and petrol stations have limited opening hours in the UK. Most shops close at 5.30pm each day (sometimes earlier), many do not open on Sundays at all.
Visiting The Crop Circles:
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The Pink Book! During 2009 Michael Glickman and Karen Alexander wrote a booklet entitled: CROP CIRCLE ETIQUETTE: Guidelines for visiting formations (with design by Nancy Lawrence). This book was printed using donations from the crop circle community and distributed for free to anyone one who wanted a copy. It is absolutely essential reading for anyone visiting the crop circles. You can download a PDF version of the booklet here for free. Please take a look at it and send it as far and wide as you can. By doing this we can educate everyone visiting the crop circles about respecting the land and leaving the crop circles as we find them for all who come after us. It will also go along way to building firm ties with the farming community who are enormously inconvenienced by careless and ignorant visitors. Please take time to consider the following when visiting the crop circles:
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