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Braydon

Braydon is a civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Swindon, between Purton and Minety.

Braydon
Braydon · Thomas Crenshaw from Alexandria, USA
The place

Braydon is a civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Swindon, between Purton and Minety. A thinly-populated farming area with no settlements apart from the farms, it is best known for sharing its name with Braydon Forest.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Braydon

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
    All Saints Church, Leigh

    All Saints Church was built around 1250 at Leigh, north Wiltshire, England, and was originally on a site half a mile to the north of its current location. In 1896, the nave, porch and bell tower were moved from their original location and a new church was built, which is now Grade II* listed.

    4 km · church in Leigh, 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 Braydon

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 96 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km
Stations
Purton railway station, 3.8 km
  • Bristol → Braydon
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • London → Braydon
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Braydon
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Braydon

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    109 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    196 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    491 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    527 km

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Around it

Next door to Braydon

Braydon is 49 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Minetyvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Purtonvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Leighvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK3.9 km