Bentley Wood
Bentley Wood, together with the adjacent Blackmoor Copse, form one of the largest contiguous areas of woodland in Wiltshire, England.

Bentley Wood, together with the adjacent Blackmoor Copse, form one of the largest contiguous areas of woodland in Wiltshire, England. The wood is about 6 miles (10 km) east of Salisbury, north of the village of West Dean, and is largely within West Dean parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Bentley Wood
One place 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.
- 01Borbach Chantry
Borbach Chantry, West Dean, in south-east Wiltshire, England, was built in 1333. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.1 km · Grade I listed church in West Dean, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bentley Wood
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 83 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 94 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 102 km
- Stations
- Dean railway station, 2.5 km
- London → Bentley Wood19 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £2–3
- Bristol → Bentley Wood79 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £9–12
- Cardiff → Bentley Wood116 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bentley Wood
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 Bentley Wood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBournemouth airport is mostly served by charter flights, and a small number of short-haul scheduled flights.
From Wikivoyage: Salisbury (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bentley Wood
- West Tytherleyvillage in Hampshire, England, UK2.5 km
- Winterslowcivil parish in Wiltshire, England2.6 km
- Buckholtvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
- East Deanvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Frenchmoorsettlement and civil parish in Test Valley, Hampshire, England2.2 km
- West Deanvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, UK2.2 km