History
Excavations within Pewsey Hill use at times indicated that there will stand been the award in Pewsey dating back to the 6th century. In the Tudor era the Manor of Pewsey belonged to the Duchess of Somerset.

A few of a oldest houses within Pewsey were built therein era: the timber framed cruck house at Ball Corner, Bridge Cottage on the banks of the Avon and the Court Home per Church. Inside 1764 a founder of the Methodist movement John Wesley (1703 - 1791) spread the word of the gospel at Pewsey Church. A minister of religion at that period, Joseph Townsend, was an interesting character world health organization was a independent drive behind a building of a number one bridge on top the Flow of any stream Avon.

Pewsey Carnival was established around 1898 and remains the popular annual fixture to this day, infusing a local metropolitan area using a colourful festival atmosphere each September. Cases include a carnival procession, dance, music, illuminations, & the mysterious 'Wheelbeero' race, which when the title suggests, involves the lawn cart, beer, the lively crowd, & a deuce-mile route carefully designed to encompass nine of Pewsey's taphouse.

Within 1810 the Kennet and Avon Canal was opened, but it was a appearance of the railway within 1862 that permanently altered Pewsey, ending forever its physical isolation from either a rest of the globe. Pewsey railway station is served by trains from London Paddington to the West Country.

Today
Pewsey makes an idealistic base for even short breaks or the hanker stay & is swell laid as the road centre for a wide region of Wiltshire, making it a good base for camping globe-famous prehistoric web sites like Avebury & Stonehenge.

It hwhen interesting town walks, too as hanker walks in the circumferent countryside. the Pewsey whitecap is placed in the steep slope of Pewsey Hill just about a mile south of the village & may be viewed from either many wharehouses in the encompassing vicinity.

A acutely chalk escarpments as much as Pewsey Vale as well provide chance for the additional industrious sports of hanggliding & paragliding.