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Cold Ashton

Cold Ashton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England.

Cold Ashton
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The place

Cold Ashton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. It is located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Bath, near the junction between the A46 and A420 roads. The village church has a 14th-century tower and the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 16th century by Thomas Key, its rector. It had a population of 221 according to the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cold Ashton

6 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
    Dyrham Park

    Dyrham Park is a baroque English country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England. The house, with the attached orangery and stable block, is a Grade I listed building, while the park is Grade II* listed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

    3.1 km · park in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Catherine's Court

    St Catherine's Court is a manor house in a secluded valley north of Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed property.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed manor house in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Catherine, St Catherine

    The Church of St Catherine is an Anglican parish church in St Catherine, Somerset, England. It was built in the 12th century as a chapel of ease of Bath and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument

    Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument is a monument erected in 1720 on Lansdown Hill, then called Lansdowne Hill, in Charlcombe parish about 4 miles north-west of the city of Bath, in Somerset, England. It was designated a Grade II* listed structure in 1956, and a scheduled monument in 1950.

    3.5 km · monument in Lansdown, Charlcombe, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary Magdalene's Church, Langridge

    St Mary Magdalene's Church at Langridge in the parish of Charlcombe, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It was restored by James Wilson between 1857 and 1861.

    3.2 km · church in Langridge, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Peter, Dyrham

    St Peter's Church, Dyrham is the Anglican parish church of Dyrham, South Gloucestershire, England. Dating from the mid-13th century, the church is listed Grade I for its exceptional architectural and historic interest.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed church in South Gloucestershire, 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 Cold Ashton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 26 km · Cardiff (CWL), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 119 km
  • Cardiff → Cold Ashton
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–10
  • London → Cold Ashton
    155 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cold Ashton
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cold Ashton

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 Cold Ashton. 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

    113 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    163 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    530 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    534 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cold Ashton

Cold Ashton is 16 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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