Castle Eaton
Castle Eaton is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England, on the River Thames about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Highworth.
Castle Eaton is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England, on the River Thames about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Highworth. It was historically in the area governed by the (former) Wiltshire County Council, but since 1997 has been part of the Borough of Swindon. The Thames at Castle Eaton forms both the northern boundary of the parish and the county boundary with Gloucestershire.
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Worth seeing in and around Castle Eaton
4 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.
- 01Church of St Mary the Virgin
The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin at Kempsford in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.
1.7 km · Grade I listed church, Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02
- 03Hannington Bridge
Hannington Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. It carries a minor road between Kempsford in Gloucestershire and Hannington Wick in Wiltshire.
2.9 km · bridge in Gloucestershire/Wiltshire, UK · Wikipedia - 04Water Eaton House Bridge
The River Thames is the second-longest river in the United Kingdom, passes through the capital city, and has many crossings. Counting every channel – such as by its islands linked to only one bank – it is crossed by over 300 bridges.
2.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Castle Eaton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 71 km · Birmingham (BHX), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 94 km
- Stations
- RAF Down Ampney, 3.4 km
- London → Castle Eaton116 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £13–17
- Bristol → Castle Eaton60 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Castle Eaton92 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Castle Eaton
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 Castle Eaton. 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 Castle Eaton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Castle Eaton
- Kempsfordvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK1.7 km
- Marston Meyseyvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England2.2 km
- Hanningtonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England4 km
- Whelfordvillage in Kempsford, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England3.9 km