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Bitton

Bitton is a village and civil parish in the South Gloucestershire district of Gloucestershire, England.

Bitton
Bitton · Geof Sheppard
The place

Bitton is a village and civil parish in the South Gloucestershire district of Gloucestershire, England. It is 7.6 miles (12.2 km) east of the centre of Bristol. The River Boyd flows through the village.

The civil parish had a population of 9,459 at the most 2021 census. In addition to Bitton village, the parish includes the villages of Swineford, Upton Cheyney, Beach, Oldland Common, North Common, and part of Willsbridge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bitton

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
    Keynsham Lock

    Keynsham Lock is a canal lock situated on the River Avon at Keynsham, England. The Bristol Avon Navigation, which runs the 15 miles from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation passed by Queen Anne, by a company of proprietors and the engineer John Hore of Newbury.

    2.3 km · Canal Lock · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Avon Valley Country Park

    Avon Valley Country Park is a 50-acre country park in Keynsham, Somerset, England. The park offers a variety of rides for children including Chair-o-planes, a small children's chair swing, Dino Jeeps, the Big Red, an outdoors drop slide, the Strawberry Line Miniature Railway, and the Play Barn.

    1.3 km · country park in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church, Saltford

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Saltford, Somerset, England. It dates from the 12th century or earlier and has been designated as a Grade II listed building.

    2.2 km · church in Saltford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham

    The Church of St John the Baptist, is an Anglican parish church in Keynsham, Somerset, England. It was built around 1270 and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Martin

    The Church of St Martin in North Stoke, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.3 km · Grade II* listed church in North Stoke, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kelston Lock

    Kelston Lock is a canal lock situated on the River Avon, between the villages of Kelston and Saltford, between Bristol and Bath, England. The Bristol Avon Navigation, which runs the 15 miles from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation passed by Queen Anne, by a company of proprietors and the engineer John Hore of Newbury.

    2.8 km · Canal lock in England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Swineford Lock

    Swineford Lock is a canal lock situated on the River Avon, at the village of Swineford, England. The Bristol Avon Navigation, which runs the 15 miles from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation passed by Queen Anne, by a company of proprietors and the engineer John Hore of Newbury.

    1.2 km · canal lock in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Saltford Manor House

    The Saltford Manor is a stone house in Saltford, Somerset, near Bath, that is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England, and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. The original Norman construction was by William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester between 1148 and 1150, and was built on an estate owned at the time of the Domesday Book by Geoffrey de Montbray the Bishop of Coutances.

    2.5 km · house in Saltford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stidham Farm

    Stidham Farm is a 17.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset, notified in 1991. This site contains Pleistocene terrace-gravels of the River Avon.

    1.2 km · Geological site in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Avon Valley Railway

    The Avon Valley Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Gloucestershire, England, operated by a local group, the Avon Valley Railway Company Ltd. The 3-mile heritage line runs from Oldland Common to Avon Riverside.

    2.2 km · heritage railway in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bitton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 18 km · Cardiff (CWL), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 124 km
Stations
Keynsham railway station, 2.6 km · Avon Riverside railway station, 900 m · Bitton railway station, 1.3 km · Kelston railway station, 2.3 km · Oldland Common railway station, 2.1 km
  • Cardiff → Bitton
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
  • London → Bitton
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bitton
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bitton

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 Bitton. 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

    115 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    156 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    529 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    530 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bitton

Bitton is 10 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Keynshamtown and civil parish in Somerset, England2.8 km
  • Saltfordvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.6 km
  • Kelstonvillage in Somerset, England3.2 km
  • Oldlandvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.1 km
  • North Stokevillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK2.1 km
  • Beachvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom2.6 km