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Broad Hinton

Broad Hinton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Swindon.

The place

Broad Hinton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlets of Uffcott and The Weir. It shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Winterbourne Bassett. In 2011 the parish had a population of 650.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broad Hinton

5 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
    Bincknoll Castle

    Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The site lies on the end of a triangular promontory on the escarpment beneath the Ridgeway to the south.

    2.8 km · site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.8 km · hill figure in Broad Hinton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard

    The Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire is a parish church of the Diocese of Salisbury, England. It dates from the 13th and 15th centuries, and was restored by William Butterfield in 1860 and 1873–1874.

    3.1 km · church in Clyffe Pypard, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Collections Centre

    The Science and Innovation Park is a research and cultural site at Wroughton, near Swindon, England. Part of the Science Museum Group, the 545 acres Park hosts a range of research and development activity, filming and photography projects, storage for culture sector partners and other commercial activity.

    3.8 km · science museum in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3 km · church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Broad Hinton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 61 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km · Cardiff (CWL), 104 km
  • Bristol → Broad Hinton
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
  • London → Broad Hinton
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
  • Cardiff → Broad Hinton
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broad Hinton

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 Broad Hinton. 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

    97 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    199 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 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

    540 km

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

Around it

Next door to Broad Hinton

Broad Hinton is 52 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.