Alveston

Worth seeing in and around Alveston

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Thornbury

   Thornbury is a market town and civil parish in the South Gloucestershire unitary authority area of England, about 12 miles north of Bristol. It had a population of 12,063 at the 2011 census, rising to 14,496 in the 2021 census.

   2.3 km · market town in South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Thornbury Castle

   Thornbury Castle is a Tudor castle in the town of Thornbury, in Gloucestershire, England, erected next to the parish church of St Mary. Construction was begun in 1511 as a further residence for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire.

   2.8 km · Grade I listed castle in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Magistrates Court

   Thornbury Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Thornbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

   2.1 km · building in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Tytherington Quarry

   Tytherington Quarry is a 57-hectare working limestone quarry near the village of Tytherington in South Gloucestershire, England. Quarrying began in 1872 and today is operated by the aggregates division of Heidelberg Materials UK. Part of the quarry is disused and designated as a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

   3.1 km · limestone quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Thornbury Museum

   4 Chapel St, BS35 2BJ,.

2. 02
   St Mary's Church

   Thornbury's High Street, a mixture of Georgian and other classical architecture.

From Wikivoyage: Alveston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

There is plenty of pubs and takeaways.

From Wikivoyage: Alveston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Alveston

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 26 km · Cardiff (CWL), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 110 km

Stations

Tytherington railway station, 3.7 km

• Cardiff → Alveston

  46 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £5–7
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• London → Alveston

  167 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £17–23
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Alveston

  108 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Alveston

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alveston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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