Aust
Aust is a small village in South Gloucestershire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Bristol and about 28 miles (45 km) south west of Gloucester.
Aust is a small village in South Gloucestershire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Bristol and about 28 miles (45 km) south west of Gloucester. It is located on the eastern side of the Severn estuary, close to the eastern end of the Severn Bridge which carries the M48 motorway. The village has a chapel, a church and a public house. There is a large area of farmland on the river bank, which is sometimes flooded due to the high tidal range of the Severn. Aust Cliff, above the Severn, is located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the village. The civil parish of Aust includes the villages of Elberton and Littleton-upon-Severn.
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Worth seeing in and around Aust
2 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.
- 01Severn Bridge
The Severn Bridge is a motorway suspension bridge that spans the River Severn between South Gloucestershire in England and Monmouthshire in South East Wales. It is the original Severn road crossing between England and Wales, and took three and a half years to build, at a cost of £8 million.
2 km · suspension bridge in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia - 02Aust Cliff
Aust Cliff is a 5.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest adjacent to the Severn Estuary, near the village of Aust, South Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. The Severn Bridge crosses the cliff.
800 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Thornbury Museum
4 Chapel St, BS35 2BJ,.
- 02St Mary's Church
Thornbury's High Street, a mixture of Georgian and other classical architecture.
From Wikivoyage: Aust, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
There is plenty of pubs and takeaways.
From Wikivoyage: Aust, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Aust
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 25 km · Cardiff (CWL), 55 km · Birmingham (BHX), 112 km
- Stations
- New Passage Pier railway station, 4 km
- Cardiff → Aust41 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–6
- London → Aust173 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £17–23
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Aust110 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aust
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 Aust. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe bridge over the river, which opened in 1906 and replaced a ferry (which promptly went bankrupt owing to an inevitable loss of custom), is particularly fine.
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Next door to Aust
Aust is 16 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Beachleyvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.8 km
- Elbertonvillage in South Gloucestershire, England, UK2.4 km
- Littleton-upon-Severnvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.5 km
- Awkleyhamlet in Gloucestershire, England, UK4 km
- Ingsthamlet in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.6 km