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Horningsham

Horningsham is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the county border with Somerset.

Horningsham
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The place

Horningsham is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the county border with Somerset. The village lies about 4 miles (6 km) southwest of the town of Warminster and 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southeast of Frome, Somerset.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Horningsham

6 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
    Longleat Safari and Adventure Park

    Longleat Safari and Adventure Park in Longleat, Wiltshire, England, was opened in 1966 as the world's first drive-through safari park outside Africa. It is in the grounds of Longleat House, the home of the 8th Marquess of Bath.

    2 km · Safari Park in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hales Castle

    Hales Castle was a medieval castle that once stood overlooking the town of Frome in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument.

    3 km · castle in Selwood, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary at Temple, Corsley, Wiltshire, England is a chapel-of-ease dating from the very early 20th century. It was commissioned and paid for by Mary Barton, of Corsley House, in memory of her husband and son.

    3.5 km · church building in Corsley, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Katherine

    The Anglican Church of St Katherine in East Woodlands, Selwood, Somerset, England was built around 1712. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.3 km · church in East Woodlands, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Former Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is a former Church of England church at Gare Hill, Somerset, England. The church, which was designed by William Butterfield and built in 1857–58, has been a Grade II* listed building since 1981.

    3.4 km · church in Gare Hill, Trudoxhill, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bradley House

    Bradley House, or Maiden Bradley House, is a country house in the village of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, between the great country estates of Stourhead and Longleat. It is the family home of the Duke of Somerset, having been in the Seymour family for over 300 years.

    3 km · country house in Maiden Bradley, 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 Horningsham

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 39 km · Cardiff (CWL), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 130 km
  • Cardiff → Horningsham
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £11–15
  • London → Horningsham
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Horningsham
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Horningsham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBrittany Ferries provide vehicle and foot passenger services to and from northern Spain, the Normandy ports of Caen and Cherbourg, and St.
  • Get inCondor Ferries provide services normally from Poole to the Channel Islands and St Malo.
  • Get aroundMinibuses , Paddock Wood, Bradley Road, BA12 7JY.

From Wikivoyage: Warminster, 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

    87 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    167 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    525 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    546 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    553 km

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Around it

Next door to Horningsham

Horningsham is 39 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.