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Fonthill Gifford

Fonthill Gifford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, to the north of the Nadder valley, 14 miles (23 km) west of Salisbury.

The place

Fonthill Gifford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, to the north of the Nadder valley, 14 miles (23 km) west of Salisbury.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fonthill Gifford

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
    Fonthill Abbey

    Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was built near the site of the Palladian house later known as Fonthill Splendens, which had been constructed by 1770 by Beckford's father William.

    1.2 km · country house in Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Fonthill Lake

    Fonthill Lake is a lake in southwest Wiltshire, England. It lies just to the south of the village of Fonthill Bishop, east of the village of Fonthill Gifford, and northeast of Fonthill Abbey.

    800 m · lake in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Leonard's Church, Berwick St Leonard

    St Leonard's Church in Berwick St Leonard, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.2 km · church in Berwick St Leonard, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pythouse

    Pythouse, sometimes spelled Pyt House and pronounced pit-house, is a country house in southwest Wiltshire, in the west of England. It is about 2+1⁄2 miles west of the village of Tisbury.

    3.9 km · building in West Tisbury, 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.

Go there

Getting to Fonthill Gifford

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 122 km
Stations
Tisbury railway station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Fonthill Gifford
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
  • London → Fonthill Gifford
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Fonthill Gifford
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fonthill Gifford

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBrittany Ferries provide vehicle and foot passenger services to and from northern Spain, the Normandy ports of Caen and Cherbourg, and St.
  • Get inCondor Ferries provide services normally from Poole to the Channel Islands and St Malo.
  • Get aroundMinibuses , Paddock Wood, Bradley Road, BA12 7JY.

From Wikivoyage: Warminster, 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

    72 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    179 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    538 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    541 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    567 km

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

Around it

Next door to Fonthill Gifford

Fonthill Gifford is 53 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.