Fovant
Fovant is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, lying about 9 miles (14 km) west of Salisbury on the A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road, on the south side of the Nadder valley.
Fovant is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, lying about 9 miles (14 km) west of Salisbury on the A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road, on the south side of the Nadder valley.
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Worth seeing in and around Fovant
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.
- 01Compton Park House
Compton Park House is a Grade I listed manor house in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles east of Salisbury.
2.8 km · Grade I listed house in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Chiselbury
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.
1.6 km · site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Fovant 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.
1.3 km · World War I memorial in Fovant, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Philipps 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.
3.1 km · Country house in Dinton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fovant
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
- Stations
- Dinton railway station, 2.2 km
- Bristol → Fovant61 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £7–9
- London → Fovant139 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £15–20
- Cardiff → Fovant95 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Fovant
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 Fovant. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBournemouth airport is mostly served by charter flights, and a small number of short-haul scheduled flights.
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Next door to Fovant
- Sutton Mandevillevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom1.7 km
- Dintonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, UK2.7 km
- Compton Chamberlaynevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Teffontcivil parish in Wiltshire, England3.2 km
- Baverstockvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.6 km
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