Goatacre
Goatacre is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, about 4 miles (6 km) north of Calne and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Lyneham on the A3102 road.
Goatacre is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, about 4 miles (6 km) north of Calne and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Lyneham on the A3102 road. It is in the parish of Hilmarton and the closest major town is Swindon, some 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast. The hamlet of New Zealand is nearby, to the northwest.
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Worth seeing in and around Goatacre
One place 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.
- 01REME Museum
The REME Museum, also known as the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Museum, is a military museum of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – the corps of the British Army responsible for the maintenance, servicing, inspection, and recovery of electrical and mechanical vehicles and equipment. The museum holds collections of technological and historical artefacts associated with the work of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
1.5 km · military museum of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, started in 1958 in Arborfield, Berkshire · Wikipedia
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Getting to Goatacre
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Cardiff (CWL), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 105 km
- Stations
- MoD Lyneham, 2.1 km
- Bristol → Goatacre43 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–6
- London → Goatacre79 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
- Cardiff → Goatacre152 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Goatacre
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 Goatacre. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Goatacre
Goatacre is 43 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tockenhamvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England2.6 km
- Hilmartonvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK1.7 km
- Lynehamvillage in Wiltshire, UK2.9 km
- Bradenstokevillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.8 km
- Highwayhuman settlement in Hilmarton, Wiltshire, England3.3 km
- Charlcutthamlet in Wiltshire, England, UK3.5 km