Biddestone
Biddestone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, in northwest Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) west of Chippenham and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Corsham.
Biddestone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, in northwest Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) west of Chippenham and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Corsham. The parish includes the smaller settlement of Slaughterford.
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Worth seeing in and around Biddestone
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.
- 01Corsham Court
Corsham Court is a 16th-century country house in a park designed by Capability Brown. It is in the town of Corsham, 3 miles west of Chippenham, Wiltshire, and is notable for its fine art collection, based on the nucleus of paintings inherited in 1757 by Paul Methuen from his uncle, Sir Paul Methuen, the diplomat.
3 km · Grade I listed English country house in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sheldon Manor
Sheldon Manor near Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, is Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house and dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. Its structure is mostly 17th-century, and it is a Grade I listed building.
2.4 km · Grade I listed manor house in Chippenham Without, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Rudloe Manor
Rudloe Manor is a 17th-century Grade II* listed manor house in Box parish, Wiltshire, England. The Manor stands at the top of Box Hill in Rudloe, on the western outskirts of Corsham, about 7 miles north-east of the city of Bath.
3.5 km · manor house in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Alexander House
Alexander House is a Grade II* listed house at High Street, Corsham, in Wiltshire, England. It dates from the early eighteenth century and is ashlar fronted with stone tiled roofs.
3.2 km · house in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Middlewick House
Middlewick House is a Grade II listed Georgian-style house just outside the town of Corsham, Wiltshire, England. It is the home of the Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his wife Nettie, who acquired it from previous owners Andrew and Camilla Parker Bowles – later Queen Camilla – in 1995.
2.3 km · house in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Bath House
The Bath House at Corsham Court, Corsham, Wiltshire, England, is a garden structure dating from the mid-18th century. The combined work of two major English architects, it was designed by Capability Brown and subsequently remodelled by John Nash.
2.8 km · Grade I listed building in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Town Hall
Corsham Town Hall is a municipal structure in the High Street, Corsham, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Corsham Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3 km · town hall in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Bolehyde Manor
Bolehyde Manor is a 17th-century manor house at Allington, north-west of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building within the Allington conservation area of Chippenham Without parish.
3.6 km · 17th-century manor house at Allington, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Hartham Park
Hartham Park is a Georgian manor house in Wiltshire, England, about 1+1⁄4 miles north of the town of Corsham. Originally designed by James Wyatt, and set today in 50 acres, it has within its grounds a stické tennis court.
1.5 km · manor house in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10West Yatton Down
West Yatton Down is a 14.4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The site is an example of unimproved limestone grassland.
2.8 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Biddestone
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 37 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · Birmingham (BHX), 115 km
- Stations
- Corsham railway station, 3.9 km
- Cardiff → Biddestone68 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
- London → Biddestone144 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–20
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Biddestone115 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Biddestone
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 Biddestone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Biddestone
Biddestone is 28 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Corshamtown in Wiltshire, England3.4 km
- Yatton Keynellvillage and parish in Wiltshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Chippenham Withoutcivil parish in Wiltshire, England2.4 km
- Fordvillage in North Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Tiddleywinkvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.5 km
- Corsham Computer Centreunderground British government installation near RAF Corsham and RAF Rudloe Manor in the heavily tunneled Corsham area of Wiltshire3.7 km