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Derry Hill

Derry Hill is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, in the civil parish of Derry Hill & Studley.

Derry Hill
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The place

Derry Hill is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, in the civil parish of Derry Hill & Studley. It has an elevated position at the northern edge of the Bowood House estate, about 3 miles (5 km) south-east of the centre of the town of Chippenham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Derry Hill

5 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
    Bowood House

    Bowood is a Grade I listed Georgian country house in Wiltshire, England, that has been owned for more than 250 years by the Fitzmaurice family. The house, with interiors by Robert Adam, stands in extensive grounds which include a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stanley Abbey

    Stanley Abbey was a medieval abbey near Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, which flourished between 1151 and 1536.

    3.4 km · monastery in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is the main Anglican church in the town of Calne, Wiltshire, England. The church is large and cruciform, with a tall north tower; it stands in a triangular churchyard at the heart of the town.

    3.8 km · church in Calne, Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Adam House

    Adam House is a 17th-century house at 13 The Green, Calne, Wiltshire, England. An example of Georgian architecture, it has been Grade II* listed since 1950.

    3.9 km · house in Calne, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Town Hall

    Calne Town Hall is a municipal building in The Strand, Calne, Wiltshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Calne Town Council, is a grade II listed building.

    3.7 km · local government building in Calne, 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 Derry Hill

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Cardiff (CWL), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 111 km
Stations
Black Dog Halt railway station, 2.1 km · Stanley Bridge Halt railway station, 1.9 km
  • Bristol → Derry Hill
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–6
  • London → Derry Hill
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £14–19
  • Cardiff → Derry Hill
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Derry Hill

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

From Wikivoyage: Devizes, 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

    99 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    184 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    503 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    520 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    539 km

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

Around it

Next door to Derry Hill

Derry Hill is 37 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.