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Harnham

Harnham is a suburb of the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, centred about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Salisbury Cathedral and across the River Avon.

Harnham
Harnham · Richard Avery
The place

Harnham is a suburb of the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, centred about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Salisbury Cathedral and across the River Avon. Harnham is split into the areas of West Harnham and East Harnham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Harnham

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
    Salisbury

    Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately 20 miles from Southampton and 30 miles from Bath.

    1.9 km · cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Salisbury Cathedral

    Salisbury Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Salisbury, England. The cathedral is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English Gothic design.

    1 km · church of England cathedral in Salisbury, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old Sarum

    Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country.

    3.7 km · site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Diocese of Salisbury

    The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the historic county of Dorset, most of Wiltshire, and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

    1 km · Church of England diocese in the south of England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wilton Abbey

    Wilton Abbey was a Benedictine convent in Wiltshire, England, three miles west of Salisbury, probably on the site now occupied by Wilton House. It was active from the early tenth century until 1539.

    3.8 km · monastery in Wilton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Martin, Salisbury

    The Church of St Martin, also known as Sarum St Martin, is a Church of England parish church in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The church has a chancel which was built c.1230, a 14th-century tower with spire, and a 15th-century nave with aisles.

    1.7 km · church in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old Sarum Castle

    Old Sarum Castle, formerly known as Seresberi Castle, is an 11th century motte-and-bailey castle built in Old Sarum, Wiltshire. It was originally built in timber and it was eventually built in stone, of which the ruins can be seen today.

    3.6 km · castle in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    College of Matrons

    The College of Matrons is a residential building and charity within the Salisbury Cathedral Close, Wiltshire, England. It was constructed in 1682 by Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, as an almshouse for ten widows of clergy ordained within the diocese of Salisbury.

    1.1 km · Grade I listed building in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Poultry Cross

    The Poultry Cross is a market cross in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, marking the site of former markets. Constructed in the 14th century and modified in the 18th century, it stands at the junction of Silver Street and Minster Street.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed market cross in Salisbury, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Wren Hall

    Wren Hall is a Grade I listed building in Salisbury Cathedral Close, Wiltshire, England. Situated on the west side of Choristers' Green, it was originally part of the attached Braybrook House.

    1 km · Grade I listed building in Salisbury, 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 Harnham

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 104 km · Cardiff (CWL), 113 km
Stations
Salisbury railway station, 1.2 km · Salisbury bus station, 1.6 km
  • Bristol → Harnham
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–10
  • London → Harnham
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £13–17
  • Cardiff → Harnham
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Harnham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBournemouth airport is mostly served by charter flights, and a small number of short-haul scheduled flights.

From Wikivoyage: Salisbury (England), 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

    55 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    200 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    524 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    549 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    585 km

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

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