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Corston

Corston is a small village and civil parish close to the River Avon and situated on the A39 road in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England.

The place

Corston is a small village and civil parish close to the River Avon and situated on the A39 road in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 494.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Corston

10 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
    Bath Spa University

    Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about 3+1⁄2 miles west of the centre of the city. The university has other campuses in the city of Bath and London, as well as a site at Corsham Court in Wiltshire.

    1.2 km · university in Bath and North East Somerset, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newton Park

    Newton Park is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Newton St Loe, Somerset, England, situated 4 miles west of Bath.

    1.2 km · Grade I listed building in Newton St Loe, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Twerton Park

    Twerton Park is a football stadium in the Twerton suburb of Bath, England. It has a physical capacity of 8,840, containing 1,006 seats.

    3.3 km · English football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Culverhay Castle

    Culverhay Castle, also known as Englishcombe Castle, was a castle in the village of Englishcombe, Somerset, England.

    3.4 km · castle in Englishcombe, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Newton St Loe Castle

    Newton St Loe Castle was a fortified manor house in the village of Newton St Loe, Somerset, England. Parts of it survive: a 14th-century keep and 15th-century gatehouse, both Grade I listed buildings.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed castle in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Lawrence, Stanton Prior

    The Anglican Church of St Lawrence in Stanton Prior, Somerset, England, has its origins in the 12th century but is mainly 15th century. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.

    3.1 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Saltford Manor House

    The Saltford Manor is a stone house in Saltford, Somerset, near Bath, that is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England, and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. The original Norman construction was by William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester between 1148 and 1150, and was built on an estate owned at the time of the Domesday Book by Geoffrey de Montbray the Bishop of Coutances.

    2.2 km · house in Saltford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Martin

    The Church of St Martin in North Stoke, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed church in North Stoke, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Swineford Lock

    Swineford Lock is a canal lock situated on the River Avon, at the village of Swineford, England. The Bristol Avon Navigation, which runs the 15 miles from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation passed by Queen Anne, by a company of proprietors and the engineer John Hore of Newbury.

    3.6 km · canal lock in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Peter, Englishcombe

    The Church of St Peter is the Church of England parish church of Englishcombe, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, 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.

Go there

Getting to Corston

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 19 km · Cardiff (CWL), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 128 km
Stations
Weston (Bath) railway station, 3.8 km · Avon Riverside railway station, 3.6 km · Kelston railway station, 2.2 km · Twerton-on-Avon railway station, 3.5 km
  • Cardiff → Corston
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–10
  • London → Corston
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £17–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Corston
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Corston

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 Corston. 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

    111 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    157 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    499 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    532 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    535 km

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

Around it

Next door to Corston

Corston is 13 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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