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Berwick Bassett

Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Swindon.

The place

Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Swindon. The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the River Kennet and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links Devizes and Avebury with Wroughton and Swindon.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Berwick Bassett

7 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
    Avebury

    Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.

    3.4 km · Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Windmill Hill

    Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres, it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain.

    2.3 km · archaeological type site in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Avebury Manor and Garden

    Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument.

    3.3 km · manor house · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hackpen White Horse

    Hackpen White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse on Hackpen Hill, located below The Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, two miles southeast of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. It is one of eight white horse hill figures located in Wiltshire.

    3.2 km · hill figure in Broad Hinton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Alexander Keiller Museum

    Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.

    3.3 km · museum in South West England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton

    The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, north of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.

    1.4 km · grade II listed church in Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Nicholas's Church, Berwick Bassett

    St Nicholas's Church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England dates from the early 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    200 m · church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Berwick Bassett

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km
  • Bristol → Berwick Bassett
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • London → Berwick Bassett
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £13–17
  • Cardiff → Berwick Bassett
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Berwick Bassett

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 Berwick Bassett. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

From Wikivoyage: Devizes, 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    198 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    506 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    506 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    543 km

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Around it

Next door to Berwick Bassett

Berwick Bassett is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.