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Atworth

Atworth is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England.

The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Great 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
  2. 02
    MoD 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
  3. 03
    Gifford 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
  4. 04
    Hazelbury 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
  5. 05
    South 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

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.

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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 → Atworth
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
  • London → Atworth
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Atworth
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    100 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    174 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    530 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    540 km

If you know how people move in Atworth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Atworth

Atworth is 29 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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