Vispring Devonshire reviewed

The Vispring Devonshire is a soft pocket sprung mattress whose fillings are all wool: British fleece wool, a hand-teased layer of Devonshire fleece wool and British needled wool over 1,326 hand-nested pocket springs in a king. It is handmade in Vispring’s Plymouth workshop and, at Land of Beds, costs from £2,069 for a single to £4,079 for a super king (September 2026).

Devonshire construction

Every detail above comes from Vispring’s Devonshire page. Vispring rates the Devonshire 1 on its own 1 to 5 feel index, the softest point on that index, which we translate to 2 on our 10-point scale.

Devonshire prices by size

Vispring does not sell online, so these are Land of Beds’ prices; it also lists small single, long single, European king and small emperor sizes. Land of Beds shows a higher RRP beside each price with no end date or countdown, so we treat its street price as the regular price.

Why the price is so high

The Devonshire’s price reflects hand labour and an all-wool filling. Vispring’s history goes back to the Marshall Sanitary Mattress Company, founded in London in 1901 to bring James Marshall’s pocket-spring mattress, invented in 1899, to Britain, and almost 200 craftspeople now build the beds by hand in Plymouth.

Who should buy a soft wool mattress?

A soft wool mattress like the Devonshire suits side sleepers who want shoulders and hips to sink in, and anyone who dislikes the heat and slow feel of memory foam, because wool, as Vispring puts it, breathes and draws away moisture. The softness is also the limit. In a Lancet trial of 313 adults with chronic low-back pain (Kovacs et al., 2003), medium-firm mattresses outperformed firm ones; the trial did not include soft mattresses, so there is no evidence either way for one this soft. The Devonshire’s answer is a firmer spring tension underneath the soft wool, which we would choose for heavier sleepers and couples. Deep wool fillings also settle into body impressions, so rotate the mattress regularly.