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Bathford

Bathford is a village and civil parish 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Bath, England.

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The place

Bathford is a village and civil parish 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Bath, England. The parish, which includes Warleigh, has a population of 1,759 and extends over 1,800 acres (7.3 km2).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bathford

10 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
    University of Bath

    The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, England. Bath received its royal charter in 1966 as Bath University of Technology, along with a number of other institutions following the Robbins Report.

    3 km · university in Bath, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holburne Museum

    The Holburne Museum is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building is home to fine and decorative arts built around the collection of Sir William Holburne.

    3.8 km · museum in Bath, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Browne's Folly

    Browne's Folly is a folly tower on the Farleigh Rise near the village of Bathford in Somerset, England. The Folly was designated a Grade II listed building in 1988.

    1 km · tower in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Thomas A Becket

    The Church of St. Thomas à Becket is the Church of England parish church of Box, Wiltshire, in south-west England.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cleveland Bridge

    Cleveland Bridge over the River Avon is a Grade II* listed building in the World Heritage Site of Bath, England. It is notable for the unusual lodges that adorn each corner in a style that could be likened to miniature Greek temples.

    4 km · bridge in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Catherine's Court

    St Catherine's Court is a manor house in a secluded valley north of Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed property.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed manor house in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Monkton Farleigh Manor

    Monkton Farleigh Manor is a Grade I listed country house close to the village of Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire, England. Built on the site of a Cluniac priory founded in 1125, the house is about 3 miles northwest of Bradford-on-Avon and 4 miles east of the city of Bath.

    2 km · Grade I listed manor house in Monkton Farleigh, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Nicholas, Bathampton

    The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church in Bathampton, Somerset, standing between the River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal. Built in the 13th century, with a 15th-century tower and 18th and 19th century restorations, it has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

    1.4 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    American Museum and Gardens

    The American Museum and Gardens is a museum of American art and culture based at Claverton, near Bath, England. Its collections of American furniture, quilts and folk art are displayed in a Grade I listed 19th-century house, surrounded by gardens overlooking the valley of the River Avon.

    2.8 km · culture and arts museum near Bath, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Saviour

    St Saviour's Church is a Church of England parish church in Larkhall, Bath, Somerset, England. The church was founded by Archdeacon Charles Moysey in 1824 following the Church Building Act 1824.

    3.1 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, 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 Bathford

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 29 km · Cardiff (CWL), 72 km · Birmingham (BHX), 123 km
Stations
Bathampton railway station, 1.3 km · Hampton Row Halt railway station, 3.3 km · Box railway station, 2.9 km
  • Cardiff → Bathford
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
  • London → Bathford
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bathford
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bathford

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 Bathford. 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

    106 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    167 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    501 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    536 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    537 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bathford

Bathford is 21 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Boxvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Batheastonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK900 m
  • Bathamptonvillage in Somerset, England, UK1.4 km
  • Clavertonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Monkton Farleighvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK2 km
  • Swainswickvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.6 km