Broad Town
Broad Town is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Royal Wootton Bassett and 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Swindon.
Broad Town is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Royal Wootton Bassett and 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlet of Thornhill and the farming hamlet of Cotmarsh. The parish population at the 2021 census was 588.
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Worth seeing in and around Broad Town
2 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.
- 01Bincknoll 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.
2.2 km · site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church 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.
1.8 km · church in Clyffe Pypard, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Broad Town
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 98 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km
- Bristol → Broad Town51 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
- London → Broad Town121 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
- Cardiff → Broad Town91 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–14
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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 Broad Town
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 Town. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Broad Town – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Broad Town
Broad Town is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Broad Hintonvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK1.9 km
- Clyffe Pypardvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.4 km
- Winterbourne Bassettvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, UK3.1 km
- Bushtonhamlet in Wiltshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Broad Town White Horsenear Broad Town, Wiltshire, England900 m