Atworth
Atworth is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England.
Atworth is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. The village is on the A365 between Melksham and Box, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Melksham and 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Bradford on Avon. The hamlet of Purlpit lies east of Atworth village, and in the south of the parish are the small village of Great Chalfield and the hamlet of Little Chalfield.
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Worth seeing in and around Atworth
5 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.
- 01Great Chalfield Manor
Great Chalfield Manor is an English country house at Great Chalfield, about 2.5 miles northeast of the town of Bradford on Avon in the west of the county of Wiltshire.
2.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in Atworth, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02MoD Corsham
MOD Corsham is a Ministry of Defence establishment located between the towns of Corsham and Box in Wiltshire, England. Since 1998 the site's principal activities concern British Armed Forces and MOD information and communications technology and information warfare.
3.4 km · Ministry of Defence site in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Gifford Hall
Gifford Hall is a Grade II* listed house on the Common at Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England. It dates from around 1700 and is limestone ashlar with a hipped stone slate roof with stone stacks.
1.8 km · grade II* listed house · Wikipedia - 04Hazelbury Manor
Hazelbury Manor is a Grade I listed manor house in the hamlet of Hazelbury, in the parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. Parts of the house date from the 15th century.
3.8 km · Grade I listed manor house in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05South Wraxall Manor
South Wraxall Manor is a Grade I listed country house which dates from the early 15th century, at South Wraxall in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3 miles north of Bradford on Avon. According to popular legend, the house was the first place tobacco was smoked in England, by Sir Walter Long and his friend Sir Walter Raleigh.
3.3 km · Grade I listed manor house in South Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Atworth
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 36 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 121 km
- Stations
- Melksham railway station, 3.8 km · Corsham railway station, 3.6 km
- Cardiff → Atworth69 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
- London → Atworth144 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Atworth123 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Atworth
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 Atworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextBristol — with its many attractions situated around the floating harbour and Avon Gorge, is 12 miles drive or 15 minutes train journey away, and makes an excellent day trip from Bath.
From Wikivoyage: Bath, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Atworth
Atworth is 29 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Broughton Giffordvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.1 km
- South Wraxallvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.5 km
- Shawvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Beanacrevillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Whitleyvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2 km
- Box Hillvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.6 km