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Great Hinton

Great Hinton is a small village and civil parish about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Melksham and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England.

Great Hinton
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The place

Great Hinton is a small village and civil parish about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Melksham and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Bleet and Cold Harbour.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Hinton

3 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
    New Semington Aqueduct

    New Semington Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the carriageway of the A350 road Trowbridge Bypass, at Semington in west Wiltshire, England. Although the construction of new canals is no longer common practice in England, new aqueducts such as this are sometimes built in relation to new roads or road widening schemes.

    1.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Semington Aqueduct

    Semington Aqueduct is an aqueduct at Semington, Wiltshire, England, UK. It carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the Semington Brook.

    2.2 km · canal aqueduct in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rood Ashton House

    Rood Ashton House was a country house in Wiltshire, England, standing in parkland 0.5 miles northeast of the village of West Ashton, near Trowbridge. Built in 1808 for Richard Godolphin Long, it was later the home of the 1st Viscount Long.

    3.7 km · house in West Ashton, 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.

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Getting to Great Hinton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 41 km · Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 117 km
  • Bristol → Great Hinton
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £5–6
  • Cardiff → Great Hinton
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £10–13
  • London → Great Hinton
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Hinton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

From Wikivoyage: Devizes, 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    177 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    512 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    530 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    548 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Hinton

Great Hinton is 35 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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