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Large contiguous area of woodland in Wiltshire, England · United Kingdom

Bentley Wood

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

Bentley Wood
Bentley Wood · Charles J. Sharp
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Borbach 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

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 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 Wood
    19 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £2–3
  • Bristol → Bentley Wood
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Bentley Wood
    116 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    48 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    212 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    514 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    553 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    589 km

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

Around it

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