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Compton Chamberlayne

Compton Chamberlayne is a small village and civil parish in the Nadder Valley in south Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Salisbury.

Compton Chamberlayne
Compton Chamberlayne · Richard Avery
The place

Compton Chamberlayne is a small village and civil parish in the Nadder Valley in south Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Salisbury. The Nadder forms the northern boundary of the parish; to the south are chalk hills. It is bisected by the A30 road. The village contains some 25 privately owned houses, a village hall, and a cricket pitch used by Compton Chamberlayne Cricket Club.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Compton Chamberlayne

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.

  1. 01
    Compton Park House

    Compton Park House is a Grade I listed manor house in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles east of Salisbury.

    200 m · Grade I listed house in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chiselbury

    Chiselbury is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The hillfort is sub-circular in plan, and encloses an area of approximately 10.5 acres.

    2.1 km · site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fovant Badges

    The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in south-west Wiltshire, England. They are between Salisbury and Shaftesbury on the A30 road in the Nadder valley, and are approximately 1⁄2 mile south-east of Fovant village.

    2.2 km · World War I memorial in Fovant, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Philipps House

    Philipps House is an early 19th-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, overlooking the Nadder valley about 8 miles west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1816 by William Wyndham to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, replacing a 17th-century house.

    3.1 km · Country house in Dinton, Wiltshire, 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 Compton Chamberlayne

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
Stations
Dinton railway station, 2.2 km
  • Bristol → Compton Chamberlayne
    62 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £7–9
  • London → Compton Chamberlayne
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–19
  • Cardiff → Compton Chamberlayne
    96 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Compton Chamberlayne

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBournemouth airport is mostly served by charter flights, and a small number of short-haul scheduled flights.

From Wikivoyage: Salisbury (England), 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

    63 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    190 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    533 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    544 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    577 km

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

Around it

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  • Fovantvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
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  • Baverstockvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK1.5 km