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Froxfield

Froxfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire.

Froxfield
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The place

Froxfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The parish is on the Wiltshire-West Berkshire border, and the village lies on the A4 national route about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Hungerford and 7 miles (11 km) east of Marlborough.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Froxfield

10 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
    Cobbler's Lock

    Cobbler's Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Hungerford, Berkshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 8 ft 3 in.

    2.4 km · Canal lock in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hungerford Lock

    Hungerford Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Hungerford, Berkshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 8 ft 0 in.

    3.9 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hungerford Marsh Lock

    Hungerford Marsh Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Hungerford, Berkshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 8 ft 1 in.

    2.9 km · canal lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Freeman's Marsh

    Freeman's Marsh is a 25.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Hungerford in Berkshire, England. It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain

    Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain is a 23.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in six widely separated areas in the floodplains of the River Lambourn in Berkshire and the River Kennet in Wiltshire, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site and part of the Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Special Area of Conservation.

    3.2 km · Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Burnt Mill Lock

    Burnt Mill Lock is on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 7 ft 9 in.

    3.4 km · canal lock in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury

    St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury is a mediaeval former chapel next to the manor house in the hamlet of Chisbury, in Little Bedwyn parish in the east of Wiltshire, England. The chapel was built in the early part of the 13th century, on the edge of Chisbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort.

    2.8 km · chapel in Chisbury, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Froxfield Bottom Lock

    Froxfield Bottom Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Froxfield, Wiltshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 7 ft 0 in.

    700 m · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Froxfield, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Froxfield Middle Lock

    Froxfield Middle Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Froxfield, Wiltshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 6 ft 11 in.

    700 m · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Froxfield, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Oakhill Down Lock and Bridge

    Oakhill Down Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Froxfield, Wiltshire, England, between Newbury Bridge and Pewsey Wharf. The lock was built between 1794 and 1799, and has a rise/fall of 5 ft 11 in.

    800 m · lock and bridge on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Froxfield, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Froxfield

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km · Bristol (BRS), 79 km · London Luton (LTN), 98 km
Stations
Bedwyn railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Froxfield
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £7–9
  • Bristol → Froxfield
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Froxfield
    17 km · quickest by road, 39 min · £2–3
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Froxfield

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    217 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    491 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    520 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    556 km

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

Around it

Next door to Froxfield

Froxfield is 42 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Great Bedwynvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England4 km
  • Shalbournevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Chilton Foliatvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Little Bedwynvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Chisburyvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Bagshotvillage in Wiltshire, England3.4 km