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Farmborough

Farmborough is a village and civil parish, 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Bath in Somerset, England.

Farmborough
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The place

Farmborough is a village and civil parish, 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Bath in Somerset, England. It straddles both the A39 and A368 roads. The parish has a population of 1,312.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Farmborough

8 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
    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.

    2.6 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Luke and St Andrew, Priston

    The Church of St Luke and St Andrew in Priston, Somerset, England has a nave dating from the 12th century, on the site of an earlier Norman church. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    2.9 km · church in Priston, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Leonard, Chelwood

    The Church of St. Leonard is a redundant church in Chelwood, Somerset, England.

    3.7 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Peter's Church, Camerton Park

    The Church of St Peter at Camerton Park in Camerton, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. From 1800 to 1839 the vicar was the archaeologist John Skinner.

    3.9 km · church in Camerton, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of All Saints, Farmborough

    The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church in Farmborough, Somerset, England. It was principally built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

    200 m · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Peter, Marksbury

    The Church of St Peter in Marksbury, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century, although most of the current fabric is from the 15th century and is a Grade II* listed building. The nave has two 2-light windows under hood moulds flanking a blocked, moulded round-headed door under a plaque dated 1627.

    1.8 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hunstrete Lake

    Hunstrete Lake is a mature lake of 5 acres. Two new lakes of 3.5 acres were constructed alongside in the 1990s.

    2.4 km · lake in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    The Anglican Church of St Mary The Virgin in Timsbury within the English county of Somerset is a Grade II* listed building. An old church on the site had fallen into disrepair by the 1820s.

    2 km · church in Timsbury, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Farmborough

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 17 km · Cardiff (CWL), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 133 km
Stations
Camerton railway station, 3.2 km
  • Cardiff → Farmborough
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
  • London → Farmborough
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £17–23
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Farmborough
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Farmborough

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 Farmborough. 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

    110 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    153 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    502 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    531 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    538 km

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

Around it

Next door to Farmborough

Farmborough is 15 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Timsburyvillage and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England1.9 km
  • Marksburyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England1.8 km
  • Pristonvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.1 km
  • Camertonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.5 km
  • High Littletonvillage in Somerset, England2.8 km
  • Chelwoodvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.1 km