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Grittleton

Grittleton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Chippenham.

Grittleton
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The place

Grittleton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Chippenham. The parish includes the hamlets of Foscote, Leigh Delamere, Littleton Drew and Sevington, and part of the hamlet of The Gibb.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grittleton

7 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
    Castle Combe Castle

    Castle Combe Castle stood to the north of the village of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England. The castle was a medieval motte and bailey castle standing on a limestone spur overlooking the Bybrook River.

    3 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's is a parish church in Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England, built in the 13th century with additions in later centuries. It was restored due to structural concerns in the 19th century.

    3.4 km · church in Castle Combe, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Castle Combe Clock

    The Castle Combe clock in St. Andrew's Church, Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England was probably made in the late 15th century.

    3.4 km · clock in St. Andrew's Church, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sevington Victorian School

    Sevington School, near the village of Grittleton, Wiltshire, England, was built in 1848 by Joseph Neeld, a landowner, for the children of his estate workers. It was built in the fashionable Neo-Gothic style and included a schoolroom and teacher’s house with parlour, kitchen and two bedrooms.

    1.6 km · building in Grittleton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Grittleton House

    Grittleton House is a country house in the village of Grittleton, Wiltshire, England, about 5+1⁄2 miles northwest of the town of Chippenham. It is a building of historical significance and is Grade II* listed on the English Heritage Register.

    100 m · country house in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Margaret of Antioch Church, Leigh Delamere

    St Margaret of Antioch Church in Leigh Delamere, Wiltshire, England was built on the site of a previous 12th-century church in 1846 and dedicated to Margaret the Virgin. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.6 km · church in Grittleton, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Manor House

    The Manor House is a 17th-century country house hotel in Castle Combe, Wiltshire in the south of England.

    3.5 km · hotel in Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Grittleton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 39 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · Birmingham (BHX), 109 km
  • Cardiff → Grittleton
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–10
  • London → Grittleton
    11 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £1.5–2
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Grittleton
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grittleton

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 Grittleton. 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

    112 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    176 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    491 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    525 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    527 km

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Around it

Next door to Grittleton

Grittleton is 28 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.