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Broughton Gifford

Broughton Gifford is a village and civil parish about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Melksham in Wiltshire, England.

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The place

Broughton Gifford is a village and civil parish about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Melksham in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Norrington Common and The Common.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broughton Gifford

8 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
    Monkton House

    Monkton House in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England is a Grade II* listed 16th-century house.

    1.3 km · house in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Semington Aqueduct

    Semington Aqueduct is an aqueduct at Semington, Wiltshire, England, UK. It carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the Semington Brook.

    3.2 km · canal aqueduct in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    New Semington Aqueduct

    New Semington Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the carriageway of the A350 road Trowbridge Bypass, at Semington in west Wiltshire, England. Although the construction of new canals is no longer common practice in England, new aqueducts such as this are sometimes built in relation to new roads or road widening schemes.

    3.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Michael and All Angels, Melksham

    St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church in the town of Melksham, Wiltshire, England. The church stands some 200 metres northwest of the town's marketplace.

    2.4 km · church in Melksham, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ebenezer Chapel, Melksham

    The Ebenezer Chapel is a Baptist place of worship in the town of Melksham in the English county of Wiltshire. The chapel was built in 1835.

    2.6 km · church in Melksham, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Town Hall

    Melksham Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which was built as a cheese market and is now the home of Melksham Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.5 km · Melksham Town Hall, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Great Chalfield Manor

    Great Chalfield Manor is an English country house at Great Chalfield, about 2.5 miles northeast of the town of Bradford on Avon in the west of the county of Wiltshire.

    2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Atworth, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Gifford Hall

    Gifford Hall is a Grade II* listed house on the Common at Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England. It dates from around 1700 and is limestone ashlar with a hipped stone slate roof with stone stacks.

    1 km · grade II* listed house · Wikipedia

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Getting to Broughton Gifford

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 38 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 119 km
Stations
Melksham railway station, 2.3 km
  • Cardiff → Broughton Gifford
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £9–12
  • London → Broughton Gifford
    143 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Broughton Gifford
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broughton Gifford

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 Broughton Gifford. 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

    97 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    175 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    507 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    530 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    543 km

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

Around it

Next door to Broughton Gifford

Broughton Gifford is 31 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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