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Dinton

Dinton is a village, civil parish and former manor in Wiltshire, England, in the Nadder valley on the B3089 road about 8 miles (13 km) west of Salisbury.

Dinton
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The place

Dinton is a village, civil parish and former manor in Wiltshire, England, in the Nadder valley on the B3089 road about 8 miles (13 km) west of Salisbury. The parish population was 696 at the 2011 census, estimated at 733 in 2019. The civil parish includes the village of Baverstock, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Dinton village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dinton

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.

    2.1 km · 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.

    3.4 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.

    3.3 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.

    1.1 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 Dinton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 61 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
Stations
Dinton railway station, 700 m
  • Bristol → Dinton
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £7–9
  • London → Dinton
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–19
  • Cardiff → Dinton
    94 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £13–17
  • 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 Dinton

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 Dinton. 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

    65 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    188 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    533 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    542 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    575 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dinton

Dinton is 60 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Fovantvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Compton Chamberlaynevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Teffontcivil parish in Wiltshire, England2.4 km
  • Baverstockvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK1.4 km
  • Teffont Eviasvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Teffont Magnavillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom2.6 km