The Old Vicarage is set on the edge of the hamlet of Brunton, close to the village of Collingbourne Kingston, nine miles from the highly popular market town of Marlborough. Much of the area’s great beauty is environmentally protected and it offers the discerning visitor a good blend of facilities. Marlborough’s famously wide High Street hosts a market twice weekly. The town displays the confidence of wealth from times past, yet today remains vibrant and progressive with its own chic café culture and many independent shops, restaurants (notably Rick Stein). There is a Waitrose, Space NK and popular boutique, Willow & Wolf as well as an independent cinema. The town also hosts a popular lit fest and sport is well catered for with clubs for tennis, cricket, hockey and rugby, a popular park run and golf club.

The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty encompasses much of the countryside. For lovers of the outdoors, there is the ancient Savernake Forest in the spring for the bluebells and in the Autumn for the fantastic colours, as well as the wide and rolling space of the Marlborough Downs.

There are a number of excellent state and independent schools in the area including Farleigh School, Marlborough College, Dauntsey’s, St Johns, St Mary’s Calne, Pinewood, Great Bedwyn and St.Katherine’s.