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Durrington

Durrington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

Durrington
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The place

Durrington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Amesbury, 10 miles (16 km) north-northeast of the city of Salisbury, and 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) northeast of the Stonehenge monument. It is on the eastern part of Salisbury Plain, the largest remaining area of chalk grassland in northwest Europe. The parish includes the hamlet of Hackthorn, on the northern outskirts of Durrington, and the military settlement of Larkhill, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the west.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Durrington

9 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
    Woodhenge

    Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury.

    1.3 km · Neolithic henge and timber circle monument near Stonehenge · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Durrington Walls

    Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire.

    1.1 km · the site of a large Neolithic settlement, village; also it enclosed several hedges; · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bluestonehenge

    Bluestonehenge or Bluehenge is a prehistoric henge and stone circle monument that was discovered by the Stonehenge Riverside Project about 1 mile south-east of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. All that remains of the site is the ditch of the henge and a series of stone settings, none of which is visible above ground.

    3.5 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stonehenge Cursus

    The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres long and between 100 metres and 150 metres wide.

    3.8 km · Neolithic cursus monument · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Amesbury Abbey

    Amesbury Abbey is a Grade I listed mansion in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, built in the 1830s for Sir Edmund Antrobus to designs of Thomas Hopper. The house, which stands in Grade II* listed parkland, is now used as a care home.

    2.8 km · 19th-century mansion in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury

    The Church of St Mary and St Melor is the parish church of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire. The Grade I listed church dates from the 12th century and may be connected with the 10th-century Amesbury Priory or its 12th-century successor, Amesbury Abbey.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Netheravon House

    Netheravon House is a Grade II listed building in Netheravon, Wiltshire, England.

    4 km · house in Netheravon, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Alban the Martyr, Larkhill

    The Garrison Church of St Alban the Martyr is a Church of England church in Larkhill, Wiltshire, England.

    2.2 km · church in Larkhill, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Blick Mead

    Blick Mead is a chalkland spring in Wiltshire, England, separated by the River Avon from the northwest edge of the town of Amesbury. It is close to an Iron Age hillfort known as Vespasian's Camp and about a mile east of the Stonehenge ancient monument.

    2.6 km · Spring & mesolithic site in England near Stonehenge · 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 Durrington

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 69 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 111 km
Stations
Bulford railway station, 1.6 km · Amesbury railway station, 2.7 km
  • Bristol → Durrington
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
  • London → Durrington
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
  • Cardiff → Durrington
    103 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Durrington

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 Durrington. 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

    66 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    202 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    514 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    535 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    571 km

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

Around it

Next door to Durrington

  • Amesburytown in Wiltshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Milstonvillage in Wiltshire, England900 m
  • Bulfordvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England1.8 km
  • Figheldeanvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Larkhillgarrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England2.7 km
  • Ablingtonvillage in Wiltshire, UK2.6 km