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Compton Abdale

Compton Abdale is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, on the Roman "White Way", which ran North from Cirencester ("Corinium").

The place

Compton Abdale is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, on the Roman "White Way", which ran North from Cirencester ("Corinium"). The village lies about 9 miles North of Cirencester, 1 mile South of the A40 London road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Compton Abdale

7 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
    Church of St Andrew

    The Anglican Church of St Andrew at Chedworth in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the late 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St George

    The Anglican Church of St George at Hampnett in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Cotswold, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Leonard

    The Anglican Church of St Leonard at Stowell Park, in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stowell Park

    Stowell Park Estate is a 6,000-acre historic agricultural and sporting estate in the Cotswold Hills, Gloucestershire, England. The estate includes the village of Yanworth.

    3.6 km · country house in Yanworth, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Michael's Church, Yanworth

    The Church of St. Michael is the parish church of Yanworth, Gloucestershire, England.

    2.4 km · church in Cotswold, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Michael, Withington

    The Anglican Church of St Michael at Withington in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Oswald

    The Anglican Church of St Oswald at Shipton Oliffe in Shipton in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Cotswold, United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Compton Abdale

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 69 km · Bristol (BRS), 75 km · London Luton (LTN), 106 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Compton Abdale
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12
  • Bristol → Compton Abdale
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–10
  • London → Compton Abdale
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Compton Abdale

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 Compton Abdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAn alternative off-road walking route is The Honeybourne Line but there have been muggings at night.
  • Get inThere are also many private aircraft there, which can be chartered.
  • Go nextCirencester, the 'capital of the Cotswolds' is a half hour drive to the south Bristol is a longer day trip to the south.

From Wikivoyage: Cheltenham, 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    205 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    467 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    492 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    503 km

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Around it

Next door to Compton Abdale

  • Chedworthvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Shiptonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Withingtonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK3.3 km
  • Yanworthvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Hazletonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Hampnettvillage and civil parish in Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England3.2 km